Byerastavitsa district

{{Short description|District of Grodno region, Belarus}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Byerastavitsa district |native_name = {{native name|be|Бераставіцкі раён}}<br />{{native name|ru|Берестовицкий район}} |image_flag = BIA Brzostowica Wielka flag.gif |flag_size = 150 |image_shield = BIA Brzostowica Wielka COA.jpg |shield_size = 75 |image_map = Belarus, Hrodzienskaja voblasć, Bierastavicki rajon.png |coordinates = {{coord|53|11|44|N|24|01|15|E|type:adm2nd_source:kolossus-itwiki|display=title, inline}} |settlement_type = [[Districts of Belarus|District]] |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = [[Belarus]] |subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Belarus|Region]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Grodno region]] |seat_type = Administrative center |seat = [[Vyalikaya Byerastavitsa]] |area_total_km2 = 743.58 |population_as_of = 2024 |population_footnotes = <ref name="pop">{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|title=Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402055418/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|archive-date=2 April 2024|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=13 May 2024}}</ref> |population_total = 14,445 |population_urban = 5,728 |population_rural = 8,717 |population_density_km2 = auto |elevation_m = |timezone = [[Moscow Time|MSK]] |utc_offset = +3 }} '''Byerastavitsa district''' or '''Bierastavica district'''<ref>Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)</ref> ({{langx|be|Бераставіцкі раён}}; {{langx|ru|Берестовицкий район}}) is a [[districts of Belarus|district]] ([[raion]]) of [[Grodno region]] in [[Belarus]]. Its administrative center is [[Vyalikaya Byerastavitsa]].<ref name="pop"/> As of 2024, it has a population of 14,445.<ref name="pop"/>

==History== The district was founded from [[Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union]] on January 15, 1940, as [[Krynki Raion]]; in 1944, it was renamed to the current name.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/grodno/berestovitsar/ |title=Berestovitsa District (Belarus) |access-date=2008-10-12 |archive-date=2009-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204114911/http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/grodno/berestovitsar/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Notable residents == * [[Andrzej Poczobut]] (born 1973, [[Vyalikaya Byerastavitsa]]), Belarusian and Polish journalist and activist, political prisoner<ref>{{cite web |title=ANDRZEJ POCZOBUT journalist, Polish minority activist |url=https://prisoners.spring96.org/en/person/andrei-paczobut |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref>

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