Iwye District

District of Grodno Region, Belarus

District in Grodno Region, Belarus

Iwye District Іўеўскі раён (Belarusian) Ивьевский район (Russian)
District
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Coordinates: 53°55′N 25°46′E / 53.917°N 25.767°E / 53.917; 25.767
Country	Belarus
Region	Grodno Region
Administrative center	Iwye
Area
• Total	1,841 km² (711 sq mi)
Population (2023)^[1]
• Total	20,107
• Density	11/km² (28/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

Iwye District or Iŭje District^[2] (Belarusian: Іўеўскі раён, romanized: Iŭeŭski rajon; Russian: Ивьевский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus. The administrative center is Iwye.^[1] Another notable settlement is Hyeranyony, a small historic town with two Category II objects of national cultural heritage (the castle and the parish church).^[3]

Notable residents

Jan Pazniak (1887 or 1895, Subotniki – after October 1939), Belarusian politician and publisher, victim of Soviet repressions^[4]
Zianon Pazniak (born 24 April 1944), Belarusian politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front and leader of the Conservative Christian Party – BPF^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
^ Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
^ List of protected monuments on the official site of Iwye Rajon (in Belarusian). Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ ПАЗНЯК Янка (Pazniak Janka) www.marakou.by.
^ Zianon Pazniak (Пазьняк Зянон Станіслававіч)