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Find sources: "Molodechno Region" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Molodechno Region Belarusian: Маладзечанская вобласць Russian: Молодечненская область Region of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 1944–1960 Map of Molodechno Region within the Byelorussian SSR Capital Maladzyechna Area • Coordinates 54°19′N 26°51′E / 54.317°N 26.850°E / 54.317; 26.850 • 1959 24,300 km2 (9,400 sq mi) Population • 1959 848,000 History • Established 20 September 1944 • Disestablished 20 January 1960 Political subdivisions Districts: 24 Preceded by Succeeded by Vileyka Region Minsk Region Grodno Region Vitebsk Region **Molodechno Region**, also known as **Maladzyechna Region** or **Molodechno Oblast** ([Belarusian](/source/Belarusian_language): Маладзечанская вобласць; [Russian](/source/Russian_language): Молодечненская область), was a [region](/source/Regions_of_Belarus) ([voblasts](/source/Oblast)) of the [Byelorussian SSR](/source/Byelorussian_SSR), the first-level administration division in the republic. Initially the region was formed on 4 December 1939, following the annexation of [Western Belorussia](/source/Western_Belorussia) into the Byelorussian SSR from the [Second Polish Republic](/source/Second_Polish_Republic), as [Vileyka Region](/source/Vileyka_Region). However, after the liberation of Byelorussia by the [Red Army](/source/Red_Army) in July 1944, most of the pre-war civil administration was not possible for a number of reasons, one of which was that the city of [Vileyka](/source/Vileyka) was heavily damaged during the war, and the transportation links between it and the rest of the region were too. However, the nearby city of [Maladzyechna](/source/Maladzyechna) (Molodechno) located 20 kilometres (12 mi) away from Vileyka escaped heavy destruction, and as a result, on 20 September 1944, Maladzyechna Region was established. Initially it contained 14 districts. These districts were [Astravets](/source/Astravets), [Ashmyany](/source/Ashmyany), [Volozhin](/source/Volozhin), [Ilya](/source/Ilya%2C_Belarus), [Iwye](/source/Iwye), Krivichi, Kurenets (Its center was relocated in Vileyka and renamed as Vileyka in 1946), [Molodechno](/source/Molodechno), [Myadzyel](/source/Myadzyel), [Pastavy](/source/Pastavy), [Radashkovichy](/source/Radashkovichy), [Smarhon](/source/Smarhon), Svir and Yuratishki. However, on 8 January 1954, in course of administrative-territorial reforms of the Byelorussian SSR, the neighbouring [Polatsk](/source/Polatsk_Voblast) and [Baranavichy](/source/Baranavichy_Voblast) voblasts (along with others) were disestablished. Molodechno Region incorporated 10 raions ([Ivyanets](/source/Ivyanets) from [Baranavichy](/source/Baranavichy); [Braslaw](/source/Braslaw), [Vidzy](/source/Vidzy), [Hlybokaye](/source/Hlybokaye), [Dzisna](/source/Dzisna), [Dokshytsy](/source/Dokshytsy), Dunilovichi, [Miory](/source/Miory), Plisa and [Sharkawshchyna](/source/Sharkawshchyna) from [Polotsk](/source/Polotsk)) from the two regions with its size growing from 14.8 to 24.3 thousand square kilometres. During the same reforms, Iwye raion was passed to [Grodno Region](/source/Grodno_Region). In 1957, Ilya raion was dissolved and was attached to Vileyka. In 1959, the Dzisna and Svir raions were dissolved and were attached to Myadzyel and Miory. The number of raions of the oblast was reduced to 20. However, on 20 January 1960, Maladzyechna Region too was disestablished. Its territory, with 848 thousand people, was divided between the modern [Vitebsk](/source/Vitebsk_Region) (raions of Braslav, Vidzy, Hlybokaye, Dokshytsy, Dunilovichi, Miory, Plisa, Pastavy and Sharkawshchyna), [Grodno](/source/Grodno_Region) (raions of Ostrovets, Oshmyany, Smorgon and Yuratishki and Bogdanov village of Volozhin) and [Minsk](/source/Minsk_Region) regions (raions of Maladzyechna, Vileyka, Volozhin (except Bogdanov village), Ivyanets, Kryvichi, [Myadzyel](/source/Myadzyel) and Radashkovichy), with the city of Maladzyechna being incorporated into the latter. This turned out to be the last of the administrative division reforms in Belarus, and since then, the borders of the regions remain today. ## External links - [Information on WHP](https://web.archive.org/web/20070311215200/http://whp057.narod.ru/molod.htm) (in Russian) Authority control databases International VIAF 2 National United States Latvia This Belarus location article is a stub. 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