Region

The Senno region was founded on July 17, 1924. The total area is 1.964 square kilometers. The region stretches 42 kilometers from north to south and about 70 kilometers from west to east. The region borders on the Liozno, Orsha, Tolochin, Chashniki, Beshenkovichi region. The administrative center of the region is the town of Senno. The region comprises the town of Bogushevsk and 334 villages.
There are 27 rivers and creeks of the total length of 300 kilometers. There are 53 lakes in the Senno region.

Some 41.9% of the territory is covered with forests. These are mainly mixed, predominantly coniferous forests. There are also birch, aspen and alder-tree woods. The soil is mainly turfy, podzol and swampy.

There are the deposits of sand-gravel, clay, organic sapropel.

Senno was first mentioned in 1566 in the list of the lands given away by King Kazimierz of the Great Principality of Lithuania. However, the town is one of the most ancient settlements in the north of Belarus what is attested by numerous archeological finds. Not far from Senno, near the village of Golovsk, archeologists unearthed the settlements dating back to the Late Stone Age, 3000 - 2000 B.C.

The Krivichi tribe inhabited the territory of the present-day Senno region in the first millennium A.D. In the 13th century the Senno lands were included in the Principality of Polotsk, then became part of the Great Principality of Lithuania, the Rzecz Pospolita, in 1772 – the Russian Empire. In 1773, in accordance with a ruling of the Senate, Senno was awarded the status of a town of the Orsha province, later, in 1777, Mogilev gubernia.

Since 1924 the Senno uezd was included into the Belarusian SSR. On November 2, 1925 it was transformed into the Senno region of Vitebsk okrug which acquired its final and present-day shape in the 1960s.

During the Great Patriotic War the Senno region waged a large-scale partisan warfare. By mid 1943 there were 113 partisan squads. On July 6-10, 1941 the region became the venue of one of the biggest tank battles of the early period of the Great Patriotic War – the Lepel counter-attack of the 20th Army which featured more than two thousand tanks.

On June25, 1944 the towns of Bogushevsk and Senno were liberated. 5.874 natives of the Senno region died in the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.
During postwar years the region was actively developing growing its construction, agriculture and manufacturing industries.

According to the statistics department, as of January 1, 2020 the population of the Senno region was 20,9 thousand people. Urban population was 10,0 thousand, rural population – 10,9 thousand. People in prime working years made up 8,1 thousand.