Chashniki district or Čašniki districtofficial transliteration (; ) is a district (raion) of Vitebsk region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Chashniki.
Lake Lukomlskoye, the fourth largest lake in the country is situated here. The Vula River flows through this district.
Notable residents Wasyl Ciapiński (c. 1430/1540s, Ciapina village – c. 1599/1600), Belarusian-Lithuanian noble, humanist, educator, writer, publisher and translator from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania known for translating the Bible into the Belarusian languageВасіль Цяпінскі (1530-я ці пач. 1540-х гг., Полаччына – 1599 ці 1600), гуманіст-асветнік, пісьменнік, кнігавыдавец, прадаўжальнік гуманістычных і культурна-асветніцкіх традыцый Ф. Скарыны (Wasyl Ciapiński(1530s or early 1540s, Poland - 1599 or 1600), humanist-educator, writer, publisher, successor of humanistic and cultural-educational traditions of F. Skaryna (in Belarusian) Uladzimyer Prakulevich (1887, Krasnaluki village – 1938), Belarusian politician, writer and lawyer, victim of Stalin’s purges Today is Slutsk uprising Day ПРАКУЛЕВІЧ Уладзімір Міхайлавіч (Prakulevich Uladzimir Mikhaylavich)(in Belarusian)
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