Karelichy district

{{Short description|District of Grodno region, Belarus}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Karelichy district |native_name = {{native name|be|Карэліцкі раён}}<br />{{native name|ru|Кореличский район}} |image_flag = Flag of Kareličy.svg |flag_size = 150 |image_shield = Coat of Arms of Kareličy, Belarus.png |shield_size = 75 |image_map = Belarus, Hrodzienskaja voblasć, Karelicki rajon.png |coordinates = {{Coord|53|34|N|26|08|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 = [[Karelichy]] |area_total_km2 = 1,093.66 |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 = 18,080 |population_density_km2 = auto |population_urban = 7,961 |population_rural = 10,119 |elevation_m = |timezone = [[Moscow Time|MSK]] |utc_offset = +3 }}

'''Karelichy district''' or '''Kareličy district'''<ref>Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)</ref> ({{langx|be|Карэліцкі раён}}; {{langx|ru|Кореличский район}}) is a [[districts of Belarus|district]] ([[raion]]) of [[Grodno region]] in [[Belarus]]. The administrative center is [[Karelichy]].<ref name="pop"/> As of 2024, it has a population of 18,080.<ref name="pop"/>

== Notable residents == * [[Jan Bułhak]] (1876, Astašyn village – 1950), photographer, ethnographer and folklorist<ref>{{cite web |title=JAN BUŁHAK – THE MAN WHO CAPTURED TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY VILNIUS |url=https://deepbaltic.com/2018/03/27/jan-bulhak-photographer-of-turn-of-the-century-vilnius/ |access-date=7 June 2022}}</ref> * [[Ignacy Domeyko]] (1802, [[Vialikaja Miadzviadka|Miadzviedka estate]] – 1889), geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile<ref>{{cite web |title=Ігнат Дамейка (Ihnat Damejka)(in Belarusian) |url=https://belhistory.com/domeyko.html |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref> * Archimandrite [[Leo Garoshka]](1911, Traščycy village – 1977), [[Belarusian Greek Catholic Church|Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite]], religious and social activist, researcher of the history of religion in Belarus and anfounder of the [[Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum|Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library]] in London.<ref>Nadsan, Alexander (2007). ''[http://online.skaryna.org.uk/items/show/61 Ceslaus Sipovich : the first Belarusian Catholic Bishop in the 20th century (1914-1981)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511175639/http://online.skaryna.org.uk/items/show/61 |date=2021-05-11 }}''. Minsk: Technalohija. pp. 157–158. {{ISBN|978-985-458-146-0}}.</ref> * [[Barys Rahula]] (1920, Turec village – 2005), Belarusian political activist<ref>{{cite web |title=Барыс Рагуля (Barys Rahula) (in Belarusian) |url=https://www.radabnr.org/%d0%b1%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%8b%d1%81-%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b3%d1%83%d0%bb%d1%8f/ |access-date=15 April 2022}}</ref>

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