The Pyetrykaw District, Pietrykaŭski Rajon ( be, Петрыкаўскі раён) is a
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 o ...
of the
Gomel Region
Gomel Region or Gomel Oblast or Homiel Voblasts ( be, Го́мельская во́бласць, Homielskaja vobłasć, russian: Гомельская область, Gomelskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center i ...
, in
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 ...
.
Notable residents
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Aleś Dudar (1904, Navasiolki village - 1937), Belarusian poet, critic, translator and a victim of
Stalin's purges
The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secreta ...
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Mikhail Marynich(1940, Staryja Haloǔčycy village — 2014), Belarusian diplomat, public figure and political prisoner
Belarusian opposition takes heart
Notes
Districts of Gomel Region
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