page_title: Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)
section_title: Industry and transport
hierarchical_section_title: Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939) / Industry and transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Wilno Voivodeship, 1937. Polski: Mapa województwa wileńskiego, stan 1937 rok. Українська: Карта Віленського воєводства станом на 1937 рік.
context_page_description: The Wilno Voivodeship was one of 16 Voivodeships in the Second Polish Republic, with the capital in Wilno. It was created in 1926 and populated predominantly by Poles with notable minorities of Belarusians, Jews and Lithuanians.
  The total area of the Wilno Voivodeship was 29,011 square kilometers, with a population of 1.276 million. Following the German and Soviet invasion of Poland and the reshaping of Europe, Poland's borders were redrawn at the insistence of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference, and the Wilno Voivodeship was incorporated into the Lithuanian and the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics. Many of the Polish population were forcibly resettled at the end of World War II. Since 1991, the former territory of the voivodeship is split between sovereign Lithuania and sovereign Belarus.
context_section_description: Wilno Voivodeship was located in the so-called Poland “B”, which meant that it was still underdeveloped, apart from the city of Wilno. Large part of population was poor, with high level of illiteracy (in 1931, 29.1% was illiterate, with the national average of 23.1%). Railway network was scarce, with only few junctions - the most important one at Wilno, also at Molodeczno, Krolewszczyzna and Nowa Wilejka. Total length of railroads within Voivodeship's boundaries was 1,097 kilometres, which was only 3.8 per 100 square kilometres.
  Elektrit Radiotechnical Society was the largest privately owned company in Wilno. With over 1100 workers, the society produced approximately 50 thousand radio receivers annually.
caption: Map of Wilno Voivodeship
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