Smarhon District

Smarhon’ District (Belarusian: Смаргонскі раён) is a district (rajon) in Grodno Region of Belarus. As of the 2009 census the population was 55,296.

The administrative center is Smarhon’.

Main sights

  • Ahinski Manor in Zaliessie

Notable residents

  • Adam Stankievič (1882, Arlianiaty village – 1949), Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer, a Gulag prisoner
  • Jan Stankievič (1891, Arlianiaty village – 1976), Belarusian politician, linguist, historian and philosopher
  • Antoni Leszczewicz (1890, Abramaǔščyna –1943), beautified Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest, victim of the Nazis
  • Andrei Tsikota, Belarusian priest, member of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and a victim of the Gulag