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Kastsyukovichy District
Kastsyukovichy' District ( be, Касцюковіцкі раён, russian: Костюковичский район, Kostyukovichsky raion) is a raion (district) in Mogilev Region, Belarus, the administrative center is the town of Kastsyukovichy. As of 2009, its population was 26,410. Population of Kastsyukovichy accounts for 60.6% of the district's population. Notable residents Masiej Siadnioŭ (1915 (1913?), Mokraje village - 2001), Belarusian poet and novelist, victim of the Gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is commonly translated as "district" in English. A raion is a standardized administrative entity across most of the former Soviet Union and is usually a subdivision two steps below the national level, such as a subdivision of an oblast. However, in smaller USSR republics, it could be the primary level of administrative division. After the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the republics kept the ''raion'' (e.g. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) while others dropped it (e.g. Georgia, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan). In Bulgaria, it refers to an internal administrative subdivision of a city not related to the administrative division of the country as a whole, or, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions of municipalities, school district, or political district. By country/region Afghanistan In Afghanistan, a district (Persian ps, ولسوالۍ ) is a subdivision of a province. There are almost 400 districts in the country. Australia Electoral districts are used in state elections. Districts were also used in several states as cadastral units for land titles. Some were used as squatting districts. New South Wales had several different types of districts used in the 21st century. Austria In Austria, the word is used with different meanings in three different contexts: * Some of the tasks of the administrative branch of the national and regional governments are fulfilled by the 95 district administrative offices (). The area a dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogilev Region
Mogilev Region or Mogilev Oblast or Mahiliow Voblasts ( be, link=no, Магілёўская вобласць; ''Mahiloŭskaja voblasć''; russian: link=no, Могилёвская область; ''Mogilyovskaya Oblast''), is a region (''oblast'') of Belarus with its administrative center at Mogilev (Mahilyow). Both Mogilev and Gomel Regions suffered severely after the Chernobyl nuclear radioactive reactor catastrophe in April 1986. Important cities within the region include Mogilev, Asipovichy and Babruysk. Geography The Mogilev Region covers a total area of , about 14% of the national total. The oblast's greatest extent from north to south is , from east to west - , while the highest point is above sea level and the lowest at above sea level. Many rivers flow through the Mogilev Region including the Dnieper (Dniapro), Berezina, Sozh, Druts, Pronya and Ptsich. The oblast' also has small lakes, the largest being the Zaozerye Lake with a surface area of . The Chigirin Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of and with a population of 9.4 million, Belarus is the List of European countries by area, 13th-largest and the List of European countries by population, 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, seven regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus', the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kastsyukovichy
Kastsyukovichy ( be, Касцюковічы; russian: Костюковичи, pl, Kostiukowicze) is a town in the Mogilev Region, Eastern Belarus. It is located in the east of the Region, close to the border with Russia, and serves as the administrative center of Kastsyukovichy District. As of 2009, its population was 15,993. History Kastsyukovichy was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1508. It belonged to Poland, and in 1772, as a result of the First Partition of Poland, it was transferred to Russia. In the middle of the 19th century it had a population of 1700 and was the administrative center of Kostyukovichskaya Volost of Klimovichsky Uyezd, Mogilev Governorate. In 1919, Mogilev Governorate was abolished, and Kastsyukovichy was transferred to Gomel Governorate. On July 17, 1924 the governorate was abolished, and Kastsyukovichy became the administrative center of Kastsyukovichy Raion, which belonged to Kalinin Okrug of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. In July, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masiej Siadnioŭ
Masiej Siadnioŭ (also Majsiej Siadnioŭ; ; 1 September 1915 (according to other sources 1913) — 5 February 2001) was a Belarusian poet and novelist. Early years Siadnioŭ was born into a poor farming family in the village of Mokraje, Mahilioŭ governorate of the Russian Empire (now Kaściukovičy district in Mahilioŭ region of Belarus). One of his teachers at secondary school (who was an acquaintance of famous Belarusian poet Jakub Kolas) encouraged Siadnioŭ's interest in literature. After school Siadnioŭ went on to study at the Mścislaŭ Pedagogical College (1930–31) and in 1933 entered the Minsk Higher Pedagogical Institute. Gulag and escape In the last year of his studies in October 1936, he was arrested on charges of participation in the "National Democratic" movement. According to the verdict, he was allegedly a member of an "anti-Soviet, counter-revolutionary organisation" while at the Mścislaŭ Institute. He was sent to a Gulag prison camp in the Kol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulag
The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced labour camps which were set up by order of Vladimir Lenin, reaching its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s. English-language speakers also use the word ''gulag'' in reference to each of the forced-labor camps that existed in the Soviet Union, including the camps that existed in the post-Lenin era. The Gulag is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union. The camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, a large number of whom were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas or other instruments of extrajudicial punishment. In 1918–22, the agency was administered by the Cheka, follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kastsyukovichy District
Kastsyukovichy' District ( be, Касцюковіцкі раён, russian: Костюковичский район, Kostyukovichsky raion) is a raion (district) in Mogilev Region, Belarus, the administrative center is the town of Kastsyukovichy. As of 2009, its population was 26,410. Population of Kastsyukovichy accounts for 60.6% of the district's population. Notable residents Masiej Siadnioŭ (1915 (1913?), Mokraje village - 2001), Belarusian poet and novelist, victim of the Gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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