Eastern Belorussia

Eastern Belarus
Administrative division of the Byelorussian SSR (green) before World War II with territories annexed by the Soviet Union from Poland in 1939 (marked in shades of orange), overlaid with territory of present-day Belarus
Administrative division of the Byelorussian SSR (green) before World War II with territories annexed by the Soviet Union from Poland in 1939 (marked in shades of orange), overlaid with territory of present-day Belarus
CountryBelarus
AreaHistorical region
Today part ofMinsk; Minsk (partially), Mogilev, and Vitsebsk (partially) regions

Eastern Belorussia (Eastern Belarus; Belarusian: Усхо́дняя Белару́сь, romanized: Uskhodniaia Bielarus) is a historical region of Belarus traditionally inhabited by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, in contrast to the largely-Catholic western Belorussia. Historically dominated politically by the peasantry, eastern Belorussia was a stronghold of the Belarusian Socialist Assembly after the February Revolution and later became the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during the interwar period.