Grodno District

Grodno District or Hrodna District (Belarusian: Гродзенскі раён; Russian: Гродненский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region of Belarus.

The administrative center is Grodno, which, however, does not form part of the district.

Notable residents
  • Tadevuš Kandrusievič(1946, Adelsk), Belarusian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Minsk–Mohilev from 2007 to 2021[1]
  • Makar Kraŭcoŭ (1891, Babroŭnia village - 1939), participant in the Belarusian independence movement, writer and a victim of Stalin's purges who authored the lyrics of Vajacki marš, popular patriotic song[2]

References
  1. Metropolitan of Minsk-Mogilev Archbishop Tadevuš Kandrusievič has not been allowed to cross the Belarusian border
  2. Kraŭcoŭ Makar



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