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Pinsk Pinsk (; , ; ; ; ) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Pinsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district. It is located in the historical region of Polesia, at the confluence of t ...
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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 ...
. Notable people with the surname include: *
Leon Pinsker Leon Pinsker or Judah Leib Pinsker (; ; – ) was a physician and Zionist activist. Earlier in life he had originally supported the cultural assimilation of Jews in the Russian Empire. He was born in the town of Tomaszów Lubelski in the south ...
(1821–1891), Russian physician and Zionist activist *
Mark Semenovich Pinsker Mark Semenovich Pinsker (; April 24, 1925 – December 23, 2003) or Mark Shlemovich Pinsker () was a noted Russian mathematician in the fields of information theory, probability theory, coding theory, ergodic theory, mathematical statistics, a ...
(1925–2003), Russian mathematician *
Sarah Pinsker Sarah Pinsker is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is a nine-time finalist for the Nebula Award, and her debut novel '' A Song for a New Day'' won the 2019 Nebula for Best NovelScott Pinsker, filmmaker, talk show host, and author * Simhah Pinsker (1801–1864), Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist {{surname Surnames of Jewish origin Jewish toponymic surnames Belarusian toponymic surnames