Valozhyn District is a second-level administrative subdivision (

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

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 ...

in the

Minsk Region Minsk Region or Minsk Oblast or Minsk Voblasts ( be, Мі́нская во́бласць, ''Minskaja voblasć'' ; russian: Минская о́бласть, ''Minskaya oblast'') is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Minsk, ...

Notable residents

Francišak Kušal Francišak Kušal ( be, Францішак Кушаль, pl, Franciszek Kuszel), also Frantsishak Kushal, Franz Kushel (February 16, 1895, Piaršai, Russian Empire - May 1969, Rochester, New York, United States) was a Belarusian and Polish mili ...

(1895, Piaršai - 1969), Belarusian political and military leaderKušel (Kušal) Francišak

References

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