Ashmyany District
Ashmyany District (Belarusian: Ашмянскі раён) is a district in Grodno Region of Belarus.
The administrative center is Ashmyany.
Notable residents
- Jazep Hermanovich (1890, Halshany - 1978), Belarusian Eastern Catholic priest, writer, poet and Gulag survivor[1]
- Zygmunt Mineyko (1840, Zialony Bor – 1925), a leading figure of the January Uprising on the territory of Belarus [2]
- Janka Viarsocki (in Belarusian Янка Вярсоцкі)(1888, Halshany - 1937), Belarusian religious and political activist of the early 20th century, victim of the Soviet repressions[3][4]
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