Pinsk District

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

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

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]

References
  1. Razor, Sasha. "Vintsėnt Dunin-Martsinkevich: Pinskaia shliakhta [The Gentry of Pinsk] (1866)". The Literary Encyclopedia.
  2. Skirmunt Raman
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