Klichaw District

Klichaw District or Kličaŭ District^[2] (Belarusian: Клічаўскі раён; Russian: Кличевский район, romanized: Klichevsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Mogilev Region in Belarus. The administrative center is Klichaw. As of 2009, its population was 17,246. The population of Klichaw accounts for 43.6% of the district's population.^[3]

Klichaw District Клічаўскі раён (Belarusian) Кличевский район (Russian)
District
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Country	Belarus
Region	Mogilev Region
Administrative center	Klichaw
Area
• Total	180,032 km2 (69,511 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[1]
• Total	13,890
• Density	0.077/km2 (0.20/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

Notable residents

• Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1855, Basin hamlet (now Kalinaǔka village) - 1881), member of the revolutionary society Narodnaya Volya who assassinated Tsar Alexander II of Russia^[4]
• Arkadź Smolič (1891, Bacevičy village - 1938), Belarusian academic, active participant of the Belarusian independence movement and a victim of Stalin's purges ^[5]

References

1. "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.
2. Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
3. Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская (PDF) (in Russian). Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
4. Імёны Свабоды: Ігнат Грынявіцкі (the Names of Freedom: Ignacy Hryniewiecki)(in Belarusian)
5. Smolič Arkadź

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