Pinsk_Raion

Pinsk District

Pinsk District

District of Brest Region, Belarus

Pinsk District (Belarusian: Пінскі раён, romanized: Pinski rajon; Russian: Пинский район, romanized: Pinsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Pinsk, which is administratively separated from the district.[1] As of 2024, it has a population of 40,741.[1]

Quick Facts Пінскі раён (Belarusian)Пинский район (Russian), Country ...

Demographics

At the time of the 2009 Belarusian census, Pinsk District had a population of 51,997. Of these, 92.2% were of Belarusian, 2.6% Russian, 2.6% Ukrainian and 1.6% Polish ethnicity. 70.7% spoke Belarusian and 26.0% Russian as their native language. In 2023, it had a population of 41,168.[2]

Pinsk district in literature

Pinskaja Šliachta [Pinsk Nobility] by Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich (1866)[3]

Notable residents

  • Raman Skirmunt (1868, Parečča village – 1939), politician, supporter of the Belarusian independence movement[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
  2. [2]
    "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  3. [3]
    Razor, Sasha. "Vintsėnt Dunin-Martsinkevich: Pinskaia shliakhta [The Gentry of Pinsk] (1866)". The Literary Encyclopedia.
  4. [4]
    Skirmunt Raman
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