Pinsk District

Pinsk District (Пінскі раён; Пинский район) is a district (raion) of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Pinsk, which is administratively separated from the district. As of 2024, it has a population of 40,741.

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.

Pinsk district in literature
Pinskaja Šliachta [Pinsk Nobility] by Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich (1866)

Notable residents

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