Rasony district Расонскі раён (Belarusian) Россонский район (Russian)
District
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Coordinates: 55°54′15″N 28°48′53″E / 55.90417°N 28.81472°E / 55.90417; 28.81472
Country	Belarus
Region	Vitebsk region
Administrative center	Rasony
Area
• Total	1,924.72 km2 (743.14 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[1]
• Total	8,523
• Density	4.428/km2 (11.47/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

Rasony district (Belarusian: Расонскі раён; Russian: Россонский район) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk region in Belarus.^[2] The administrative center of the district is Rasony.^[1]

Lake Neshcharda, the seventh-largest lake in Belarus, is situated in the district.^[3]

History

During World War II, Rasony District was a large part of the Belarusian partisans. Led by Pyotr Masherov, the partisan movement in Rasony began in 1941, and continued until Operation Bagration liberated Belarus from Nazi Germany in 1944.^[4]

Notable residents

• Jan Barszczewski (1797, Mirahi village – 1851), "one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature"^[5]
• Hienadz Buraǔkin (1936, Šulacina village – 2014), Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat^[6]

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