Surazh (Russian: Сураж) is a town and the administrative center of Surazhsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Iput River 177 kilometers (110 mi) southwest of Bryansk, the administrative center of the oblast.

The territory formed part of the Smolensk Voivodeship within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1648/1667, and afterwards it was located within the Cossack Hetmanate.

[10] According to a 1897 census, the town had a population of 4,006, of which 59.9% were Jews, 24.4% were Belarusians, 13.9% were Russians, 0.8% were Ukrainians and 0.6% were Poles.

[4] As a result of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with radionuclides (mainly Gordeyevsky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Krasnogorsky, Surazhsky, and Novozybkovsky Districts).

In 1999, some 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km2, representing approximately 16% of the oblast's population.