Syanno District

District in Vitebsk Region, Belarus

Syanno District Сенненскі раён (Belarusian)
District
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Coordinates: 54°48′N 29°42′E / 54.800°N 29.700°E / 54.800; 29.700
Country	Belarus
Region	Vitebsk Region
Administrative center	Syanno
Area
• Total	1,966.05 km² (759.10 sq mi)
Elevation	152 m (499 ft)
Population (2023)^[1]
• Total	19,035
• Density	9.7/km² (25/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

Syanno District (Belarusian: Сенненскі раён; Russian: Сенненский район) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk Region in Belarus.^[2] Its administrative center is Syanno.^[1]

Notable residents

Zair Azgur (1908, Maǔčany village – 1995), Belarusian sculptor^[3]
Pyotr Masherov (1919, Šyrki village – 1980), Soviet partisan in World War II and leader of Soviet Belarus between 1965 – 1980^[4]
Lavon Rydleŭski (1903, Uljanavičy village - 1953), active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and an anti-Soviet resistance and a prominent member of the Belarusian diaspora.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
^ "Vitebsk Region" (in Belarusian). vitebsk-region.gov.by. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
^ Zair Isaakovich Azgur
^ Pyotr Masherov
^ “ Lavon Rydleŭski dreamt about Slucak” ("Лявон Рыдлеўскі марыў пра Случчыну"). zviazda.by (in Belarusian). 2019-06-28