Krupki District is a second-level
administrative subdivision
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
(
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 co ...
) of
Minsk Region,
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 R ...
. Its capital is the town of
Krupki
Krupki (, , , lt, Krupkos) is a small city in Krupki Raion, Minsk Region, Belarus.
History
History before 1914
Krupki was founded in 1067 and existed during both the medieval Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385), Kingdom of Poland and of the great ...
. Also located in the district are the small towns of
Bobr and
Chalopieničy.
The largest lake of the district is Lake
Syalyava (fourteenth largest in Belarus).
Notable residents
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Uladzimer Kavalonak (also known as Vladimir Kovalyonok) (1942, Belaje village), Soviet Belarusian cosmonaut
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Ales Pushkin (b. August 6, 1965, Bobr village), Belarusian non-conformist painter, theater artist, performer, art curator, and political prisoner
References
Districts of Minsk Region
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