Rasony district

Rasony district (; ) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk region in Belarus. The administrative center of the district is Rasony.

Lake Neshcharda, the seventh-largest lake in Belarus, is situated in the district.

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History During World War II, Rasony District was a large part of the Belarusian partisans. Led by Pyotr Masherov, the partisan movement in Rasony began in 1941, and continued until Operation Bagration liberated Belarus from Nazi Germany in 1944.

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Notable residents

• Jan Barszczewski (1797, Mirahi village – 1851), "one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature"
• Hienadz Buraukin (1936, Šulacina village – 2014), Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat У Полацку падрыхтавалі выставу да 85-годзьдзя Генадзя Бураўкіна (An exhibition dedicated to the 85th anniversary of Hienadz Buraǔkin has been arranged in Polack)(in Belarusian)

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