Braslaw 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 counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...

in the

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 ( oblas ...

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 centre is

Braslaw Braslaw or Braslav ( be, Браслаў, Braslaŭ; russian: Браслав, Braslav) is a town in the Vitebsk Region of Belarus, an administrative center of the Braslaw District. History The town was first mentioned in 1065 as a castle in th ...

. Braslau Raion is famous for its numerous lakes. The National Park and popular tourist region Braslau Lakes is situated here. The largest lakes are Dryvyaty (the fifth largest in Belarus), Snudy (the ninth largest in Belarus), Strusto (the sixteenth largest in Belarus),

Richi Richi may refer to: *Richi, Iran, a village in Fars Province, Iran *Richi Lake, Belarus, Latvia *Ricardo Pérez de Zabalza Goytre (born 1977), Spanish former football winger *Richi Puspita Dili Richi Puspita Dili (born 10 July 1989) is an Indones ...

(the seventeenth largest in Belarus).

Notable residents

* Alesia Furs (1925, Aziarava village - 2017), member of the Belarusian independence movement and Anti-Soviet resistance and a Gulag prisoner. *

Tomasz Wawrzecki Tomasz Antoni Wawrzecki () (1753–1816) was a distinguished Polish-Lithuanian politician and military commander. During Kościuszko Uprising, he succeeded Tadeusz Kościuszko as the . Early life Tomasz Wawrzecki was born in the in 1754 or 7 ...

(1753, Mejšty estate –1816), politician and military commanderТамаш Ваўжэцкі (Tomasz Wawrzecki)
in Belarusian)

References

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