Minsk District

Minsk District (Мінскі раён; Минский район) is a district (raion) of Belarus in Minsk Region. The administrative center is the capital Minsk, which is administratively separated from the district and region. As of 2024, it has a population of 274,990. The most populous town in the district is Zaslawye.

Geography
The district is situated both in the middle of Minsk Region and of the Belarus. It is crossed by the Svislach River and the towns around Minsk are part of its metropolitan area.

It borders, from north to south in a clockwise sense, with the districts of Vilyeyka, Lahoysk, Smalyavichy, Chervyen, Pukhavichy, Uzda, Dzyarzhynsk, Valozhyn and Maladzyechna.

Administrative divisions
The district is divided into 18 rural councils (sieĺsaviets) and 37 municipalities (including Minsk).

Rural councils
The 18 sieĺsaviets are: Astrašycki Haradok, Baraŭliany, Harani, Ždanovičy, Juzufova, Kalodziščy, Krupica, Lašany, Luhavaja Slabada, Michanavičy, Novy Dvor, Papiernia, Piatryški, Samachvalavičy, Sienica, Chaciežyna, Šaršuny, Ščomyslica.

Municipalities
The 37 municipalities counts one autonomous city (Minsk), one town (Zaslawye), one urban-type settlement (Machulishchy), and 34 simple municipalities (population as of 2009).

• Minsk (1,837,000)

• Zaslawye (14,400)

• Machulishchy (8,000)

• Borzdyn Moloyo

• Butsevichi

• Chuchany

• Gorodzishko (Kolodishansky)

• Gorodzishko (Shomyslitsky)

• Hatava

• Ignatichi

• Karalishovichi

• Kosin

• Novoye Polye

• Novy Dvor Bolodkovichov

• Novy Dvor Bungenov

• Apchak

• Onopol

• Ostroshitski

• Astrashytski Haradok

• Papernya

• Ratamka

• Pryluki

• Pyatsovshchina

• Rovbitsi

• Rusinovitsi

• Syenitsa

• Solomorechcho

• Samakhvalavichy

• Stayki

• Staroye Selo

• Strochitsy

• Syomkava

• Syomkov Gorodok

• Torosov

• Tsna

• Vyovkabitsi

• Zamastochcha

Notable residents

 * Yan Matusevich (1946, Komenka village – 1998), first dean of the modern Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
 * Ernst Sabila (1932, Dzehciaroŭka village – 2022), Belarusian Protestant religious leader, dissident and Gulag survivor
 * Mikhail Puteiko (1913, Revkutyevichi village – 1945), Red Army general during World War II killed at the Battle of Bautzen