Pinsk District
Pinsk District is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Region, in Belarus. Its administrative center is Pinsk. Demographics. At the time of the Belarus Census (2009), 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. 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