Pyetrykaw District

Pyetrykaw District or Pietrykaŭ District (Петрыкаўскі раён; Петриковский район) is a district (raion) of Gomel Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Pyetrykaw. As of 2024, it has a population of 25,531.

Notable residents

 * Aleś Dudar (1904, Navasiolki village – 1937), Belarusian poet, critic, translator and a victim of Stalin's purges


 * Mikhail Marynich (1940, Staryja Haloǔčycy village – 2014), Belarusian diplomat, public figure and political prisoner