Rasony

Urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus

Rasony

Расоны (Belarusian)

Urban-type settlement

Rasony

Coordinates: 55°54′15″N 28°48′33″E﻿ / ﻿55.90417°N 28.80917°E﻿ / 55.90417; 28.80917
Country| Belarus
Region| Vitebsk Region
District| Rasony District
Population

(2024)[1]

| 4,518
Time zone| UTC+3 (MSK)

Rasony (Belarusian: Расоны; Russian: Россоны, romanized: Rossony) is an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.[1] It is located 45 kilometres (28 mi) north of Polotsk,[2] and serves as the administrative center of Rasony District.[3] In 2016, its population was 4,946.[4] As of 2024, it has a population of 4,518.[1]

## History

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At the 1939 Soviet census, Rasony had a Jewish population of 49 people.[2] During World War II, it was under German military occupation from 15 July 1941 until the summer of 1944.[2] The Soviet Extraordinary State Commission estimated in 1945 that there were 488 inmates of the local ghetto, and many of them died before the ghetto was liquidated by the Germans.[5]

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
2. ^ a b c Megargee & Dean 2012, p. 1724.
3. ^ Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Мінская вобласць: нарматыўны даведнік / І. А. Гапоненка, І. Л. Капылоў, В. П. Лемцюгова і інш.; пад рэд. В. П. Лемцюговай. — Мн.: Тэхналогія, 2003. — 604 с. ISBN 985-458-054-7.
4. ^ "Численность населения на 1 января 2016 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2015 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". www.belstat.gov.by (in Russian).
5. ^ Megargee & Dean 2012, p. 1725.

## Sources

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* Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Dean, Martin (4 May 2012). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933 –1945: Volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Indiana University Press. pp. 1724–1725. ISBN 978-0-253-00202-0.

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