Vileyka District
Vileyka District is the second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in the north-west of Minsk Region. The capital of the town is Vileyka.
Vileyka District
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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.[1]
- Piotra Sych(1912, Baturyna village - 1963) - Belarusian writer and journalist, a Gulag prisoner[2]
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References
- 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.
- Пётра Сыч (Piotra Sych) (in Belarusian)
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