Loyew district or Lojeŭ district[Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)] (; ) is a district (raion) of Gomel region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Loyew. As of 2024, it has a population of 10,786.
History
The Battle of Loyew took place in 1649 where a numerically superior force of Ukrainian Cossacks under the command of Cossack warleaders Stepan Pobodailo and Mykhailo Krychevsky was defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of hetman Janusz Radziwiłł.
[ The Battle of Loyew in 1649: on whose side were the Belarusians? (Бітва пад Лоевам 1649 года: на чыім баку беларусы?) ]
The district was founded on 8 December 1926. It has been a part of the Gomel region since 1938, after administrative reforms introduced regions in Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR). The district was dissolved for several years in the 1960s, being abolished in December 1962 and reinstated in July 1966. It has been a district of Belarus since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Geography
The area of the district is . Forest makes up 37.7% of the district's land use, with 43.4% used for agricultural purposes as of 2010.
It is bordered in the west and north by
Brahin district, Khoiniki, Rechytsa, and
Gomel district districts of the
Gomel region, and in the east - along the
Dnieper and partly along its tributary of the
Sozh River - with the
Chernihiv Oblast oblast of
Ukraine. The largest body of water is the Dnieper-Brahin Reservoir. It contains the Dnieper-Sozh nature preserve.
Demographics
The population of the district was 12,024 as of 2017, with 6,739 living in
Loyew and 5,285 living in rural settlements. The population density of the district is . The ethnic composition in the 2009 census was 92.9%
Belarusians, 4.4%
Russians, and 1.8%
Ukrainians. The
First language of 87% of the population was Belarusian and for 11.6%
Russian language. Belarusian is spoken at home by 64.4% of the population and Russian by 32.5% of the population.
The district's population has been in decline since the 1960s.
Administrative divisions
The district encompasses one urban settlement and seven
Selsoviet, which contain a total of 71 settlements.
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| Loyew | Ло́еў | Лоев | urban settlement | | 7,022 |
| Byváĺkaŭski | Быва́лькаўскі | Бывальковский | rural council | 12 | 949 |
| Kárpaŭski | Ка́рпаўскі | Карповский | rural council | 6 | 589 |
| Kaŭpiénski | Каўпе́нскі | Колпенский | rural council | 6 | 1,375 |
| Malínaŭski | Малі́наўскі | Малиновский | rural council | 11 | 936 |
| Ručajoŭski | Ручаёўскі | Ручаёвский | rural council | 9 | 669 |
| Strádubski | Стра́дубскі | Страдубский | rural council | 18 | 2,032 |
| Ubórkaŭski | Убо́ркаўскі | Уборковский | rural council | 9 | 774 |
