Pinsk District

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Pinsk District
Пінскі раён
Flag of Pinsk District
Coat of arms of Pinsk District
Brest-Oblast-Pinsk.png
CountryBelarus
Population
 • Estimate 
(2019)
45,943
Websitepinsk.brest-region.gov.by

Pinsk District is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Region, in Belarus. Its administrative center is Pinsk.

Demographics[]

At the time of the Belarus Census (2009), 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.

Pinsk district in literature[]

Pinskaja Šliachta [Pinsk Nobility] by Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich (1866)[1]

Notable residents[]

Raman Skirmunt (1868, Parečča village – 1939), politician, supporter of the Belarusian independence movement[2]

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Coordinates: 52°07′30″N 26°05′09″E / 52.12500°N 26.08583°E / 52.12500; 26.08583


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