Valozhyn district
district of Minsk Region, Belarus
Valozhyn district or Valožyn district (Belarusian: Валожынскі раён; Russian: Воложинский район) is district (raion) of Minsk region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Valozhyn. As of 2024, it has a population of 33,499.
Notable residents
Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), founder and president of the World Jewish Congress, and president of the World Zionist Organization
Francišak Kušal (1895, Piaršai – 1969), Belarusian political and military leader
Shimon Peres (born Szymon Perski; 1923–2016), prime minister of Israel and president of Israel
Yehoshua Rabinovitz (1911–1979), Israeli mayor of Tel Aviv.
“Valozhyn district” enters the record as district of Minsk Region, Belarus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Valozhyn, district and Minsk can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Valozhyn district” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Valozhyn, district and Minsk provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1817324. VIAF identifies the subject as 36147663069560551967. The Library of Congress control number is nb2016017964. Authority coordinates are 54.083, 26.517. 4 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 1895, 1982 and 1969.
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