Kapyl District

District of Minsk Region, Belarus

District in Minsk Region, Belarus

Kapyl District Капыльскі раён (Belarusian) Копыльский район (Russian)
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Coordinates: 53°09′00″N 27°05′30″E / 53.15000°N 27.09167°E / 53.15000; 27.09167
Country	Belarus
Region	Minsk Region
Administrative center	Kapyl
Area
• District	1,600 km² (600 sq mi)
Population (2024)^[1]
• District	26,533
• Urban	9,985
• Rural	16,548
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)
Website	Kopyl ispolkom website

Kapyl District or Kapyĺ District^[2] (Belarusian: Капыльскі раён; Russian: Копыльский район) is a district (raion) of Minsk Region in Belarus.^[1] Its administrative center is Kapyl.^[3]^[1] As of 2024, it has a population of 26,533.^[1]

Notable residents

Ales Adamovich (1927, Kanuchi village – 1994), Belarusian writer and critic, author of the screenplay for film “Come and See” ^[4]
Paval Zhauryd (1889, Cieciarouka village – 1939), Belarusian military figure, one of the commanders of the Slutsk defence action and a victim of Stalin's purges^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
^ Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
^ Kopyl raion page Archived 2012-02-27 at the Wayback Machine at Minsk Oblispolkom website
^ Read and See: Ales Adamovich and Literature out of FireBy Valzhyna Mort
^ "Першая вялікая бітва за незалежнасць Беларусі – Слуцкі збройны чын (First major battle for independence of Belarus - Slutsk military action) (in Belarusian)". Retrieved 21 June 2022.