Vitebsk District ( be, Віцебскі раён, russian: Витебский район, Vitebsk Raion) 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 ...

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 ...

Vitebsk Region Vitebsk Region or Vitebsk Oblast or Viciebsk Voblasts ( be, Ві́цебская во́бласць, ''Viciebskaja voblasć'', ; rus, Ви́тебская о́бласть, Vitebskaya oblast, ˈvʲitʲɪpskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a region (oblast ...

. The administrative center of the district is the city of

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest ci ...

, administratively separated from the district. The most populated town of the district itself is Ruba.

Geography

Situated in the eastern side of its

Voblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of ...

and crossed by the Vitba river; Vitebsk District borders, from north to south, with the districts of

Haradok Haradok ( be, Гарадок, - russian: Городок, Gorodok, pl, Horodek) is a town in the Vitebsk Region of Belarus with the population of 34,700 people. Approximately 14,000 people reside in the town itself around 30,000 people reside wit ...

, Shumilina,

Beshankovichy Biešankovičy (also spelled ''Beshenkovichy'', ''Beshankovichy'') ( be, Бешанко́вічы; russian: Бешенкóвичи; pl, Bieszenkowicze) is a town in the Vitebsk Province of Belarus and a port on the Western Dvina river. It is wes ...

Syanno Syanno or Senno ( be, Сянно; russian: Сенно́; pl, Sienno; lt, Siano) is a city in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It is southwest of Vitebsk on the southern shore of Senno Lake. As of the 2018, the population was 7,092. History The villa ...

and Liozna. In the eastern side it borders with the Russian oblasts, from south to north, of Smolensk and

Pskov Pskov ( rus, Псков, a=pskov-ru.ogg, p=pskof; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, located about east of the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population ...

Subdivision

The district is divided into 8 rural councils (''

selsoviet Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...

s'') and 45 municipalities (including Vitebsk).

Rural councils

Municipalities

* Vidzy

Notable residents

Alexander Rypinski Alexander Rypinski (; 10 September 1809 - 8 November 1886) was a Belarusian and Polish poet, translator and folklorist, participant in the November Uprising. Rypinski was born into a Polonised Ruthenian (Belarusian) noble family on the Kukavia ...

(1809, Kukaviačyna estate - 1886), Belarusian and Polish poet, translator and folklorist, participant in the

November Uprising The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in W ...

Арлоў, Уладзімер (2020). ІМЁНЫ СВАБОДЫ (Бібліятэка Свабоды. ХХІ стагодзьдзе.) [Uładzimir Arłou. The Names of Freedom (The Library of Freedom. ХХІ century.)
/nowiki> (PDF) (in Belarusian)] (4-е выд., дап. ed.). Радыё Свабодная Эўропа / Радыё Свабода - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. pp. 86–87.

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