ABOUT THE DISTRICT
Drogichinsky district is located in the southwestern part of the Brest region. In the west it borders with the Kobrin district, in the north with the Berezovsky district, in the east with Ivanovsky, in the south with the Lyubeshovsky district of the Volyn region of Ukraine. Length of territory:
From north to south - 41 km, from west to east - 51 km.
The district consists of 135 settlements. Administratively, the region is divided into 11 village councils. The city of Drogichin is the regional center. There are 14 agricultural towns in the area: Detkovichi, Radostovo, Vulka, Golovchitsy, Lipniki, Novaya Popina, Vulka Radovetskaya, Zakozel, Imenin, Bezdezh, Khomsk, Brashevichi, Osovtsy, Antopol.
The population of the district as of January 1, 2021 is 35,757 people, of which 14,963 people live in the city of Drogichin, 1,532 in the urban village of Antopol, the rural population is 19,262.
There are 5 religious denominations operating in the region, numbering 36 religious communities. Of these: 25 are Orthodox, 2 are Roman Catholic, 2 are Christians of the Evangelical Faith, 6 are Evangelical Christian Baptists (one of them is not registered) and 1 is Seventh Day Adventists. Children's Sunday schools are created and operate in communities.
The information support system for the population of the region includes the regional newspaper “Dragichynski Vesnik”. You can also hear news about the Drogichinsky district on Radio Brest on 104.2 FM on Mondays at 15.00.
The district newspaper is published twice a week. The newspaper's circulation is 5,368 copies. Saturation per 1000 population is 128 copies, self-sufficiency -105.6%. The newspaper has its own website “Drogichin.BY”, information is also presented on the social networks “Odnoklassniki” and “VKontakte”, in the Viber messenger.
There are cable television operators in the area: TTT-International LLC and Brestoblgarant OJSC.
20 public associations operate in the district.
The leading industry in the region's economy is agriculture, specializing in the production of grain, sugar beets, potatoes, milk and meat. The agricultural sector is represented by one agricultural production cooperatives, 12 open joint-stock companies, 1 communal agricultural unitary enterprise and 43 peasant farms.
The district's economy is represented by 7 industrial enterprises, 100 consumer service facilities, 479 trade facilities, and 21 public catering facilities.
In health care institutions, inpatient care is provided to the population in 289 beds. There are 6 general practice outpatient clinics in the area. Also in the area there are 23 FAPs, 1 paramedic health center at the State Educational Institution “Regional Agricultural-Industrial Professional Lyceum”. In total, 895 employees work in medical institutions: 118 doctors, 398 paramedics.
The cultural life of the district includes 24 houses of culture and club institutions, 4 children's art schools, 1 choreographic school and 2 museums: Military Historical Museum. D.K. Udovikov and the Bezdezhsky Apron Museum of Folk Art.
Symbols of Drogichin
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The coat of arms and flag of Drogichin are its official heraldic symbols. The coat of arms of the city of Drogichin was included in the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus on 06/09/1998. No. 15.
Description of the coat of arms: a shield of “Varangian” shape, pointed downward. On a blue field there are two silver (white) doves, facing one to one. Below them is a silver bow with an arrow pointing upward. On the sides of the field at arrow level there are a pair of silver acorns.
Explanation of the coat of arms: the coat of arms reflects the historical past of Drogichin, which arose as the settlement of Dovecherovichi (first mentioned in 1452). Since 1623 - a town in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. According to the information from the “Geographical Dictionary of the Russian Empire” (vol. 2), at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries in the city of Drogichin there was a church in honor of the Presentation of the Lord. Therefore, the image of doves is used on the coat of arms - the religious symbol of the Presentation (in Church Slavonic - the Presentation of the Lord). The image of silver acorns reflects that the settlement of Dovecherovichi arose on the site of thousand-year-old oak groves. The bow, as an element of the city coat of arms of Pinsk, is intended to remind that the village of Dovecherovichi, the historical predecessor of Drogichin, from the 15th century was part of the Pinsk principality, and then of the Pinsk eldership, from which it passed to the Sapiehas (the founders of the village of Dovecherovichi).
The color scheme of the coat of arms - silver figures on a blue field correspond to the coat of arms of the Gediminovich family, the owners of the Pinsk principality, the blue field is an element of the heraldic symbol of the regional center.
The flag of the city of Drogichin was approved by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus on December 2, 2008. No. 659.
The flag of the city of Drogichin is a rectangular panel of blue-silver-blue color with a ratio of 1:2, in the center of the front side of which is the coat of arms of the city of Drogichin, which is a shield of “Varangian” shape, pointed downwards. On a blue field there are two silver doves, facing one to one. Below them is a silver bow with an arrow pointing upward. On the sides of the field at arrow level there are a pair of silver acorns.
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