Luninyets District

Luninyets District or Luniniec District (Лунінецкі раён; Лунинецкий район) is a district (raion) of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Luninyets. As of 2024, it has a population of 61,728.

Demographics
At the time of the 2009 Belarusian census, Luninets District had a population of 73,200. Of these, 96.2% were of Belarusian, 2.5% Russian and 0.8% Ukrainian ethnicity. 76.8% spoke Belarusian and 21.9% Russian as their native language. In 2023, it had a population of 62,544.

Notable residents

 * Anton Sokał-Kutyłoŭski (1892 (Pieravaloki-Darahišča (renamed Čyrvonaja Horka)) - 1983), active participant in the Belarusian independence movement, a military leader of anti-Soviet resistance in the early 20th century and a Gulag prisoner.


 * Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (b.1982, Mikashevichy), Belarusian human rights activist and politician