West Belarus

Administrative division of the Belorussian SSR in 1939-1944. Territory of West Belarus annexed from occupied Poland marked in orange

West Belarus is the name used to mean to the land of modern Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939.

The land is Hrodna and Brest voblasts. It is also parts of today's Minsk and Vitsebsk oblasts. The historical population of West Belarus included Belarusians, Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, and Russians.

West Belarus Media

Presumed greatest extent of areas with Belarusian presence according to research by Belarusian ethnographers Yefim Karsky (1903, yellow) and Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy (1919, red), overlaid with the territory of post-1991 Belarus (green)
Linguistic (mother tongue) and religious structure of Northern Kresy (today parts of Belarus and Lithuania) according to the Polish census of 1931
Children gathered at the dining hall of the Belarusian Gymnasium of Vilnia, Poland, 1935
Polish families deported to Siberia after the Soviet annexation of the eastern regions of the Second Polish Republic.

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