Kamyenyets District or Kamieniec District ( Belarusian : Камянецкі раён ; Russian : Каменецкий район ) is a district ( raion ) of Brest Region in Belarus . Its administrative center is Kamyenyets . As of 2024, it has a population of 31,088.
4-540: The westernmost point of Belarus is situated in Kamyenyets District, a few kilometers southwest from Vysokaye on the Bug River . At the time of the 2009 Belarusian census , Kamyenyets District had a population of 39,143. Of these, 83.2% were of Belarusian , 7.4% Ukrainian , 6.7% Russian and 1.7% Polish ethnicity. 52.1% spoke Russian and 43.0% Belarusian as their native language. In 2023, it had
8-520: A population of 31,476. This Belarus location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vysokaye Vysokaye ( Belarusian : Высокае , romanized : Vysokaje ; Russian : Высокое , romanized : Vysokoye ; Ukrainian : Високе , romanized : Vysoke ; Polish : Wysokie ) is a town in Kamyenyets District , Brest Region , Belarus . The westernmost point of Belarus
12-564: Is located a few kilometers to the southwest from Vysokaye on the Bug River . As of 2024, it has a population of 4,913. The town has a railway station on the Brest line. Vysokaye means "high" (same as Polish : Wysokie ), as in Wysokie Litewskie ( Lithuanian Heights ). That was also its name before 1940, when it belonged to Poland. It is about 15 kilometers from Polish border and majority of its citizens are Belarusians. Within
16-839: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania , Vysokaye was part of Brest Litovsk Voivodeship . In 1795, Vysokaye was acquired by the Russian Empire as a result of the Third Partition of Poland . From 1921 until 1939, Vysokaye ( Wysokie Litewskie ) was part of the Second Polish Republic . In September 1939, Vysokaye was occupied by the Red Army and, on 14 November 1944, incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR . From 23 June 1941 until 28 July 1944, Vysokaye
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