Rasony district

Rasony District (Belarusian: Расонскі раён; Russian: Россонский район) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk Region in Belarus.

[2] The administrative center of the district is Rasony.

[1] Lake Neshcharda, the seventh-largest lake in Belarus, is situated in the district.

[3] During World War II, Rasony District was a large part of the Belarusian partisans.

Led by Pyotr Masherov, the partisan movement in Rasony began in 1941, and continued until Operation Bagration liberated Belarus from Nazi Germany in 1944.