Pyetrykaw district or Pietrykaŭ district (; ) is a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
(
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...
) of
Gomel region in
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
. Its administrative center is
Pyetrykaw. As of 2024, it has a population of 25,531.
Notable residents
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Aleś Dudar (1904, Navasiolki village – 1937), Belarusian poet, critic, translator and a victim of
Stalin's purges
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Mikhail Marynich
Mikhail Apanasavich Marynich (13 January 1940 — 17 October 2014) was a Belarusian diplomat, politician, and pro-democracy activist. Minsk city mayor, minister of foreign economic affairs and ambassador. He was also the inspirational leader ...
(1940, Staryja Haloǔčycy village – 2014), Belarusian diplomat, public figure and political prisoner
Belarusian opposition takes heart
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