Iwye District ( be, Іўеўскі раён, Iŭeŭski rajon) is a district (rajon) in

Grodno Region Grodno Region ( pl, Grodzieńszczyzna) or Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts ( be, Гродзенская вобласць, ''Hrodzienskaja vobłasć'', , ''Haradzienščyna''; russian: Гродненская область, ''Grodnenskaya oblast' ...

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 ...

. The administrative center is

Iwye Iwye ( be, Іўе ; lt, Yvija; russian: Ивье ; pl, Iwje; yi, איוויע ''Ivye'') is a city and former shtetl in Belarus in the Grodno Region, 158 km east of Grodno. It is a station on the railway line between Lida and Maladzyechna ...

. Another notable settlement is

Hieraniony Hieraniony ( be, Геранёны) is a village (an agrotown) in Iwye District, Belarus. It is located near the Belarus–Lithuania border. It is known for the 16th-century Hieraniony Castle built by Albertas Goštautas Albertas Goštautas ( ...

(''Gieraniony''), a small historic town with two Category II objects of national cultural heritage (the castle and the parish church).

Notable residents

* Jan Pazniak (1887 or 1895, Subotniki - after October 1939), Belarusian politician and publisher, victim of

Soviet repressions Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October Revolution. It culminated during the History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953), Stalin era ...

Zianon Pazniak Zianon Stanislavavič Pazniak ( be, Зянон Станіслававіч Пазняк, born 24 April 1944) is a Belarusian nationalist politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front and leader of the Conservative Christian ...

(born 24 April 1944), Belarusian politician, one of the founders of the

Belarusian Popular Front The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, be, Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне", БНФ; ''Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie"'', ''BNF'') was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1 ...

and leader of the Conservative Christian Party – BPFZianon Pazniak (Пазьняк Зянон Станіслававіч)
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