Brahin District or Brahinski Rajon ( be, Брагінскі раён, russian: Брагинский район, Bragin District), 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 county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
of
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 ...
. Its administrative seat is the small town of
Brahin.
Geography
The district includes the towns of Brahin and
Kamaryn
Kamaryn is a village in the Brahin district of Belarus, near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat. Its population in 2017 was 1,777. It experienced heavy nuclear fallout during the Chernobyl disaster.
Geography
Kamaryn is on the Dnieper
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, 14 rural councils (''Selsovets''), and several villages. Following the
1986 Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor, reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainia ...
, it is partially included in the
Polesie State Radioecological Reserve
The Polesie State Radioecological Reserve ( be, Палескі дзяржаўны радыяцыйна-экалагічны запаведнік, russian: Полесский государственный радиационно-экологич ...
. To the south of Kamaryn is situated the southernmost point of Belarus.
Notable residents
Julija Cimafiejeva
Julia Cimafiejeva ( be, Юлія Цімафеева, born on 12 January 1982 in the village of Śpiaryžža (Сьпярыжжа), (in Brahin District, Homel Region) is a Belarusian poet and translator from English and other languages. She gradua ...
(b. 1982, Śpiaryžža village), Belarusian poet and translator
Cimafiejeva Julia Piatroǔna (Цімафеева Юлія Пятроўна)
See also
*Brahin (meteorite)
Brahin is a meteorite pallasite found in 1810.
This is the second meteorite ever found in Russia.Laboratory of Meteoritics, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry''Brahin''
Sometimes it is also called Bragin or Bragim.
It is ...
*Chernihiv–Ovruch railway
russian: Участок Чернигов–Овруч be, Ўчастак Чарнігаў–Оўруч
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*Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP; ; ), is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Belarus–Ukraine borde ...
References
External links
Districts of Gomel Region
Polesie State Radioecological Reserve
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