Syanno District (Belarusian: Сенненскі раён; Russian: Сенненский район) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk Region in Belarus.[2] Its administrative center is Syanno.[1]

Notable residents

  • Zair Azgur (1908, Maǔčany village – 1995), Belarusian sculptor[3]
  • Pyotr Masherov (1919, Šyrki village – 1980), Soviet partisan in World War II and leader of Soviet Belarus between 1965 – 1980[4]
  • Lavon Rydleŭski (1903, Uljanavičy village - 1953), active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and an anti-Soviet resistance and a prominent member of the Belarusian diaspora.[5]

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