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Pinsk District (Belarusian: Пінскі раён, romanized: Pinski rajon; Russian: Пинский район, romanized: Pinsky rayon) is a district of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Pinsk , which is administratively separated from the district. [ 1 ]
Pinsk (Belarusian: Пінск; Russian: Пинск, IPA:; Polish: Pińsk; Ukrainian: Пінськ; Yiddish: פינסק) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Pinsk District , though it is administratively separated from the district. [ 1 ]
Lahishyn (Belarusian: Лагішын, romanized: Lahišyn; Russian: Логишин, romanized: Logishin) is an urban-type settlement in Pinsk District, Brest Region, in southern Belarus. [2] As of 2024, it has a population of 1,773. [1]
Pinsk Region (Pinsk Voblasts, Belarusian: Пінская вобласць, Russian: Пинская Область) was a territorial unit in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic created after the Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia in November 1939.
A district or raion (Russian: район, romanized: rayon, pl. районы, rayony; Belarusian: раён, romanized: rajon, pl. раёны, rajony) [1] in Belarus is the second-level administrative division in the country which are subordinate to regions (also known as oblasts).
This division was inherited by the contemporary Republic of Belarus from the Byelorussian SSR and introduced in 1938. [2] As of 2020, 115 settlements had the status of a city/town. Among them: [3] 10 cities of regional subordinance; 104 towns of district subordinance; Minsk — the capital of the country.
Kudrychy or Kudrichi (Belarusian: Кудрычы, romanized: Kudryčy; Russian: Кудричи; Polish: Kudrycze) is a village in Pinsk District, Brest Region, Belarus. It is part of Kalavuravichy selsoviet. [1] It is located in the National Landscape Reserve of Middle Pripyat.
After the war, Poland's borders were redrawn and Pinsk became part of the Soviet Union. Some of the Jews who survived the Holocaust returned, but they were prohibited from reopening a synagogue. In the 1970s and 1980s, most of them emigrated. [9] Pinsk became part of independent Belarus in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.