Brahin District or Brahinski Rajon ( be, Брагінскі раён, russian: Брагинский район, Bragin District), is a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
of
Gomel Region, in
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...
. Its administrative seat is the small town of
Brahin.
Geography
The district includes the towns of Brahin and
Kamaryn, 14 rural councils (''Selsovets''), and several villages. Following the
1986 Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor, reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainia ...
, it is partially included in the
Polesie State Radioecological Reserve. To the south of Kamaryn is situated the southernmost point of Belarus.
Notable residents
Julija Cimafiejeva (b. 1982, Śpiaryžža village), Belarusian poet and translator
Cimafiejeva Julia Piatroǔna (Цімафеева Юлія Пятроўна)
See also
* Brahin (meteorite)
* Chernihiv–Ovruch railway
* Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
References
External links
Districts of Gomel Region
Polesie State Radioecological Reserve
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