Šalčininkai District Municipality
Šalčininkai District Municipality
Šalčininkų rajono savivaldybė | ||
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Municipality | ||
Capital Šalčininkai | | |
Elderships | List
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Area | ||
• Total | 1,491 km2 (576 sq mi) | |
Population (2021) | ||
• Total | 30,052 | |
• Density | 20/km2 (52/sq mi) | |
UTC+3 (EEST) | ||
Major settlements |
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Website | www |
Šalčininkai District Municipality (Lithuanian: Šalčininkų rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 district municipalities in Lithuania. The municipality is part of the Vilnius County and is located in southeastern Lithuania, next to the Belarus–Lithuania border.[1] The south-eastern border of the municipality with Belarus includes a distinctive salient of Lithuanian territory, known as the Dieveniškės appendix, almost completely surrounded by Belarus.
Šalčininkai is the largest town and the administrative center of the district with its newly built quarters, while the second largest town is Eišiškės, a more historical town, which was the center of the district and the largest town before 1972.
It has a Polish majority population, with three-quarters of the population claiming Polish ethnicity.[2]
History
Soviet occupation
Šalčininkai district was formed in 1950, during the
Years | Number of
apylinkės in the district |
Source |
---|---|---|
1954–1972 | 17 | [1] |
1976 | 16 | [1] |
1979 | 14 | [1] |
1986 | 13 | [1] |
1989 | 12 | [1] |
The Šalčininkai district's official Communist newspaper was called Lenin's Precepts (Russian: Заветы Ленина, romanized: Zavety Lenina; Polish: Przykazania Lenina; Lithuanian: Lenino priesakai) and published in three languages: Russian, Polish and Lithuanian.[3] Although officially, the absolute majority of the district's residents were Poles, as many as 8,000 of the inhabitants were subscribed to the Russian-language newspaper, while only one and a half thousand - to the Lithuanian and Polish language versions.[3] The newspaper spread hostile misinformation towards the re-emerging independent Lithuanian state of Lithuania in all language versions of its issues.[3]
1990s
On 11 March 1990, when the
In 1995, the Šalčininkai district municipality was established instead of the Šalčininkai district.[1]
Geography
Geographically, the eastern part of the district is in the Ashmyany Highlands , the western part is in the Southeast Plain , while the southwestern part is in the Eišiškės Plateau . The highest place (265 m (869 ft 5 in)) is near Katkuškės , the lowest (121 m (397 ft 0 in)) is near Šalčia, near the boundary between the Šalčininkai and the Varėna district municipalities.[1]
Through the district flows the river
Forest coverage is 48%, with pine forests prevailing.[1] The biggest forest is the Rūdninkai forest.[1] The most important mineral deposits are gravel (Jašiūnai, Pabarė , Navakonys , Mantviliškės , Mikališkės ), sand (Pabarė).[1]
Lithuanian Route 104 passes through the district.
Climate
The average temperature in January is -4.5 °C, while in July it is 17 °C.[1] Annual rainfall is 650 mm.[1]
Demographics
Ethnicity
Ethnic group | 2021[4] | 2011[5] | 2001[6] | |||
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Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | |
Poles | 22,933 | 76.3 | 26,858 | 77.75 | 31,223 | 79.48 |
Lithuanians | 3,789 | 12.6 | 3,746 | 10.84 | 4,086 | 10.4 |
Russians | 1,517 | 5.05 | 1,858 | 5.38 | 1,948 | 4.96 |
Belarusians | 857 | 2.85 | 1,162 | 3.36 | 1,139 | 2.9 |
Ukrainians | 174 | 0.58 | 226 | 0.65 | 253 | 0.64 |
Romani/Gypsies | / | / | 82 | 0.24 | 105 | 0.27 |
Tatars | / | / | 28 | 0.08 | 33 | 0.08 |
Germans
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/ | / | 13 | 0.03 | 9 | 0.02 |
Latvians | / | / | 10 | 0.02 | 13 | 0.03 |
Others | 161 | 0.54 | 53 | 0.15 | 75 | 1.34 |
Not indicated | 621 | 2.07 | 487 | 1.41 | 398 | 1.01 |
Total | 30,052 | 100 | 34,544 | 100 | 39,282 | 100 |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Bartoševičienė 2018.
- ^ "Tautinių mažumų departamentas prie Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausybės".
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Skaržinskas 2016.
- Statistics Lithuania(in Lithuanian).
- ^ Lietuvos Respublikos 2011 metų gyventojų ir būstų surašymo rezultatai [Results of the 2011 Population and Housing Census of the Republic of Lithuania] (in Lithuanian). pp. 162–163.
- ISBN 9986-589-79-7.)
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Bibliography
- Bartoševičienė, Valė (2018-12-14). "Šalčininkų rajono savivaldybė". vle.lt(in Lithuanian).
- Skaržinskas, Česlovas (2016-12-01). "Šaltoje Šalčios žemėje" [In the cold land of Šalčia]. Bernardinai (in Lithuanian).