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Minsk District (Belarusian: Мінскі раён; Russian: 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).
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
See also
Minsk Automobile Ring Road
References
External links
Media related to Minsk District at Wikimedia Commons
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