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Grodno district

Grodno district or Hrodna district is a district (raion) of Grodno region in Belarus.

Grodno district
Grodno district · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Grodno district or Hrodna district is a district (raion) of Grodno region in Belarus. The administrative center is Grodno, which is administratively separated from the district. As of 2024, it has a population of 48,494.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grodno district

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Grodno

    St. Francis Xavier Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Grodno, Belarus.

    1.6 km · church in Grodno, Belarus · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kaloža Church

    The Kalozha Church of Sts. Boris and Gleb is the oldest extant structure in Grodno, Belarus.

    1.3 km · church in Hrodna, Belarus · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Old Grodno Castle

    The Old Grodno Castle in Grodno, Belarus, originated in the 11th century as the seat of a dynasty of Black Ruthenian rulers, descended from a younger son of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev.

    1.2 km · castle in Grodno, Belarus · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Great Synagogue

    The Great Synagogue of Grodno, also known as the New Synagogue or the Choral Synagogue, is an Orthodox Hasidic Jewish synagogue, located on Vialikaja Trajeckaja Street, in Grodno, Belarus. The building dates from the 16th century and was nominated for UNESCO World Heritage listing in 2007.

    1.5 km · synagogue in Grodno, Belarus · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    New Grodno Castle

    The New Castle in Grodno, Belarus is a royal palace of Augustus III of Poland and Stanisław August Poniatowski where the famous Grodno Sejm took place in 1793. New Grodno Castle is 116 metres above sea level.

    1.2 km · palace in Grodno, Belarus · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno is а higher education institution located in Grodno, Belarus. It is the largest regional higher education institution in the country, integrating all levels of education.

    2.5 km · university in Hrodna, Belarus · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Grodno State Medical University

    Grodno State Medical University is a university in Grodno, Belarus. It specialises in medicine and medical psychology.

    3.8 km · university in Belarus · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of Annunciation of Virgin Mary, Hrodna

    The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a part of the Bridgettines monastery in Grodno, listed Cultural Heritage of Belarus.

    1.7 km · church building in Grodno, Belarus · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Grodno Zoo

    Grodno Zoo is a zoo located in Grodno in Belarus. Grodno Zoo was founded in 1927 as the first zoo in future Belarus on the initiative of the high school teacher Jan Kochanowski.

    3.2 km · zoo in Belarus · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Zaniomanskaja Synagogue

    Zaniomanskaja Synagogue was a vernacular wooden synagogue located in the city of Grodno, in Belarus. It was built in c. 1750 in what was then the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

    700 m · building in Hrodna · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Grodno district

Airports
Vilnius (VNO), 144 km · Kaunas (KUN), 145 km · Brest (BQT), 173 km
  • Vilnius → Grodno district
    115 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · €18–25
  • Kaunas → Grodno district
    109 km · quickest by road, 5h 14m · €27–37
  • Palanga → Grodno district
    1487 km · quickest by road, 29h 11m · €230–320
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grodno district

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Grodno district. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf coming by car from Poland or Lithuania, be sure to fill the customs declaration, even on one day trip using the visa free regime.

From Wikivoyage: Grodno, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01735 km
  2. 02
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    753 km
  3. 03
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    756 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    758 km
  5. 05
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    760 km

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Around it

Next door to Grodno district

Grodno district is 1 km from Hrodna, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.