Biaroza rajon is an administrative subdivision of the Brest Province of Belarus with the center in Biaroza

Biaroza

Biaroza is a town of 31 000 inhabitants in Western Belarus in Brest voblast, center of the Biaroza rayon.- History :The village of Biaroza was first mentioned in 1477 as part of the Slonim paviet. In the 15th century, the village probably received the town charter. Between 1538 and 1600 it was...

. The rajon is located in northwestern Polesia

Polesia

Polesia is one of the largest European swampy areas, located in the south-western part of the Eastern-European Lowland, mainly within Belarus and Ukraine but also partly within Poland and Russia...

.

The rajon was formed in 1940 after the Soviet annection of West Belarus

West Belarus

West Belarus is the name used in reference to the territory of modern Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939. The area of West Belarus was annexed into the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic following staged elections soon after the Nazi-Soviet Invasion of...

.

In 1958–1967 the Biaroza hydroelectric power station was built. The town of Biełaaziorsk is built for the power station workers in 1958.

There are two biological reserves in the rajon, near villages Sporava and Busłoŭka.

Economics

There are industry enterprises in the rayon producing agricultural products, ceramics, construction materials, textiles.

An important railway branch connecting voblsc center Brest

Brest, Belarus

Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...

 and capital Minsk

Minsk

- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

 goes through the Biaroza rajon. Main railway stations in the rajon are Biaroza-Kartuskaja, Bronnaja Hara, Biełaaziorsk

Places of interest

• Orthodox Čarniachaŭskaja church of St. Nicolas (1725)
• Carthusian monastery ruins
  Biaroza monastery
  Biaroza monastery refers to the ruins of the former Carthusian baroque Roman Catholic Monastery of the Holy Cross, constructed in the seventeenth century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.-Foundation:...
  
  , Biaroza
  Biaroza
  Biaroza is a town of 31 000 inhabitants in Western Belarus in Brest voblast, center of the Biaroza rayon.- History :The village of Biaroza was first mentioned in 1477 as part of the Slonim paviet. In the 15th century, the village probably received the town charter. Between 1538 and 1600 it was...
  
  
• Staryja Pieski mansion, 19th century
• Roman Catholic Church of St. Virgin Mary, Sihnievičy (1795)

External links

• Biaroza rajon administration official website