{{Infobox settlement | name = Voranava | native_name = {{native name|be|Воранава}}<br />{{native name|ru|Вороново}} | settlement_type = [[List of urban-type settlements in Belarus|Urban-type settlement]] | image_skyline = Вороново, Вороновский район, Гродненская область, Беларусь 17.jpg | image_flag = BIA Woronów flag.svg | image_shield = Herb Woronowa.svg | flag_size = 150 | shield_size = 75 | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[Belarus]] | subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Belarus|Region]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Grodno Region]] | subdivision_type2 = [[Districts of Belarus|District]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Voranava District]] | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | coordinates = {{coord|54|09|N|25|19|E|region:BY|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_map = Belarus | elevation_m = 165 | population_as_of = 2025 | population_footnotes = <ref name="pop">{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_148168/|title=Численность населения на 1 января 2025 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2024 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250329210112/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_148168/|archive-date=29 March 2025|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref> | population_total = 5,532 | timezone = [[Moscow Time|MSK]] | utc_offset = +3 | website = }}
'''Voranava''' or '''Voronovo''' ({{langx|be|Воранава}}; {{langx|ru|Вороново}}; {{langx|pl|Woronów, Werenowo}}) is an [[List of urban-type settlements in Belarus|urban-type settlement]] in [[Grodno Region]], in western [[Belarus]].<ref name="pop"/><ref name="enc">{{cite book |last1=Gaponenko |first1=Irina Olegovna |title=Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць |date=2004 |location=Minsk |publisher=Тэхналогія |page=137 |isbn=985-458-098-9}}</ref> It serves as the administrative center of [[Voranava District]].<ref name="pop"/> It is located about {{convert|32|km|0|abbr=on}} from [[Lida]] and {{convert|13|km|0|abbr=on}} from the [[Belarus-Lithuania border|border with Lithuania]]. As of 2025, it has a population of 5,532.<ref name="pop"/>
== History == {{unsourced section|date=May 2025}} [[File:Viarenaŭ, Rynak. Вярэнаў, Рынак (20.06.1939) (2).jpg|thumb|left|Market in June 1939]] Within the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] and [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], Voranava was part of [[Vilnius Voivodeship]]. It was a [[private town]] of [[szlachta|nobility]], including the [[Goštautai]] and Scipio del Campo families.<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich|volume=XIII|year=1893|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=955}}</ref> Jan Scipio del Campo founded a Piarist college in the town before 1738, which was later moved to [[Lida]].<ref name=sgk/> In 1795, the town was annexed by the [[Russian Empire]] in the course of the [[Third Partition of Poland]]. From 1921 until 1939, Voranava was part of the [[Second Polish Republic]].
During [[World War II]], in September 1939, the town was occupied by the [[Red Army]] and, on 14 November 1939, incorporated into the [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|Byelorussian SSR]]. From 23 June 1941 until 11 July 1944, Voranava was [[German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II|occupied by Nazi Germany]] and administered as a part of the ''[[Generalbezirk Weissruthenien|Generalbezirk Weißruthenien]]'' of ''[[Reichskommissariat Ostland]]''.
== Population == {{refimprove section|date=May 2025}} {{Historical populations|align=left|cols=3|1865|468|1905|500|1921|1232|1976|3600|1990|6800|1996|6700|2004|6600|2005|6559|2006|6498|2007|6400 |2009|6332|2015|6200|2016|6434|2023|5683|2024|5624 |source=<ref name=pop2009>{{cite web|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/belarus-ethnic-comm2009.htm|title=Ethnic composition of Belarus 2009|access-date=24 December 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/publications/izdania/public_bulletin/index_67469/|title=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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417144107/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/publications/izdania/public_bulletin/index_67469/|archive-date=17 April 2023|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{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 October 2024}}</ref>}} {{clear|left}}
Distribution of the population by ethnicity according to the 2009 census:<ref name=pop2009/> {{bar box|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|[[Polish people|Poles]]|red|70.51}} {{bar percent|[[Belarusians]]|green|21.35}} {{bar percent|[[Russians]]|dodgerblue|5.64}} {{bar percent|[[Ukrainians]]|yellow|0.92}} {{bar percent|[[Lithuanians]]|lightgreen|0.3}} {{bar percent|[[Armenians]]|brown|0.11}}}}
== Gallery == <gallery> File:Сядзіба Сцыпіёнаў.jpg|Historic manor of Scipio del Campo (19th century) File:Woronowo-pallotyni-kosciol-qs.jpg|Church of the God's Mercy File:Woronowo-church-qsqs-1rrr.JPG|Church of the God's Mercy File:Woronowo-qsqs-211.JPG|Church of the God's Mercy inner interior File:Воранаўскі раённы суд.jpg|District court File:Будынак аптэкара.jpg|Pharmacy building File:Раённы дом культуры.jpg|District house of culture File:Помнік невядомаму салдату.jpg|Monument to defenders of the motherland World War II File:Воранаўскае_возера.jpg|Voranava lake File:Сінагога ў Воранаве.jpg|Former synagogue File:Воранаўская сельгастэхніка.jpg|Voranava Farm machinery File:Царква імя Аляксандра Неўскага ў Воранаве.JPG|Church of Alexander Nevsky </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == * [http://voronovo.by/ Official website] * [http://www.voran.by/ Website of Voronovo's newspaper] * [https://belhotel.by/en/?Voronovo Hotel in Voronovo] * {{JewishGen-LocalityPage|1951494|Voranava, Belarus}}
{{Grodno Region}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Populated places in Grodno region]] [[Category:Urban-type settlements in Belarus]] [[Category:Voranava district]]
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