Smarhon district or Smarhoń district (; ) is a

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(

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 c ...

) of Grodno region in

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. The administrative center is

Smarhon Smarhon, or Smorgon, is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Smarhon District. It was the site of Smarhon air base, now mostly abandoned. Smarhon is located from the capital, Minsk. As of 2025, it has a p ...

. As of 2024, it has a population of 48,464. Historically the district's center

was part of the

Vilnius Voivodeship The Vilnius Voivodeship (, , , ) was one of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's voivodeships, which existed from the voivodeship's creation in 1413 to the destruction of the Lithuanian state in 1795. This voivodeship was Lithuania's largest, most p ...

within the

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until 1795. Forty percent of the names of Smarhon district's settlements have remained of

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n origin, while residents of Smarhon once spoke in the Eastern Aukštaitian- Vilnian dialect of

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Main sights

Ahinski Manor in Zaliessie The Ahinski Manor () is an early-nineteenth-century country house located in the village of Zaliessie (also Zalesse), Smarhon district in Belarus. Early years of the estate The estate was originally acquired by the Ahinski (Oginski) family ...

Notable residents

Adam Stankievič Adam Stankievič (, , January 6, 1892 – November 29, 1949) was a Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer. Stankievič was one of ideologists of the Belarusian Christian democratic movement in the early 20th century. Adam Stank ...

(1882, Arlianiaty village – 1949), Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer, a

Gulag The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...

prisoner *

Jan Stankievič Jan Stankievič (26 November 1891 – 16 July 1976, known by the diminutive Janka) was a Belarusian politician, linguist, and historian. Biography Jan Stankievič was born in the village Arlianiaty near Ashmyany. During World War I, Stankiev ...

(1891, Arlianiaty village – 1976), Belarusian politician, linguist, historian and philosopher *

Antoni Leszczewicz Antoni Leszczewicz (; 30 September 1890 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish-Belarusian Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest. One of the 108 Martyrs of World War II, he was a missionary in China for two decades in the interwar period, later j ...

(1890, Abramaǔščyna – 1943), beautified Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest, victim of the Nazis *

Andrei Tsikota Archmandrite Andrei Tsikota MIC ( zh, 祁高德, , Andrej Cikota, , also Andrew Cikoto;Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic The Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic (, ) was the governing body of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Since 1919, the Rada BNR has been in exile where it has preserved its existence among the Belarusian diaspora as an advocacy group ...

and a victim of the

Андрэй Цікота: святар, які ламаў стэрэатыпы [Andrei Tsikota: a priest who broke stereotypes
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References

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