Vitebsk District

Vitebsk District or Viciebsk District (Віцебскі раён; Витебский район) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk Region in northern Belarus. The administrative center of the district is the city of Vitebsk, which is administratively separated from the district. The most populated town of the district itself is Ruba.

Geography
Situated in the eastern side of the district and crossed by the Vitba River; Vitebsk District borders, from north to south, the districts of Haradok, Shumilina, Beshankovichy, Syanno and Liozna. In the eastern side it borders with the Russian oblasts, from south to north, of Smolensk and Pskov.

Administrative divisions
The district is divided into 8 rural councils (selsoviets) and 45 municipalities (including Vitebsk).

Municipalities

 * Vidzy

Notable residents

 * Alexander Rypinski (1809, Kukaviačyna estate - 1886), Belarusian and Polish poet, translator and folklorist, participant in the November Uprising