Vileyka district or Viliejka districtOfficial transliteration from Belarusian language (2007) (; ) is a district (raion) of Minsk region in Belarus. The administrative center of the district is the town of Vileyka. As of 2024, it has a population of 46,075.
Administrative-territorial structure
The district includes the city of district subordinance, Vileyka, and a number of selsoviets: Vyazyn rural council Dawhinava, Vileyka district rural council Izha rural council Ilya rural council Kryvoye Syalo rural council Kuranets rural council Lyuban, Vileyka district rural council Lyudvinova rural council Asipavichy, Vileyka district rural council Hatsenchytsy rural council
Notable residents
Janka Filistovič (1926, Paniacičy village – 1953), active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and a member of the underground anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus in the 1950s.Арлоў, Уладзімер (2020). ІМЁНЫ СВАБОДЫ (Бібліятэка Свабоды. ХХІ стагодзьдзе.) [Uładzimir Arłou. The Names of Freedom (The Library of Freedom. ХХІ century.)] (PDF) (in Belarusian) (4-е выд., дап. ed.). Радыё Свабодная Эўропа / Радыё Свабода - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. pp. 244–245. Piotra Sych (1912, Baturyna village – 1963) - Belarusian writer and journalist, a Gulag prisoner Пётра Сыч (Piotra Sych) (in Belarusian)
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