Slutsk District Explained
| Official Name: | Slutsk District |
| Native Name: |
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| Flag Size: | 150 |
| Settlement Type: | District |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Belarus |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Minsk Region |
| Seat Type: | Administrative center |
| Seat: | Slutsk |
| Area Total Km2: | 1821 |
| Population As Of: | 2024 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 85,537 |
| Population Urban: | 60,056 |
| Population Rural: | 25,481 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | MSK |
| Utc Offset: | +3 |
Slutsk District or Sluck District[2] (Belarusian: Слуцкі раён; Russian: Слуцкий район) is a district (raion) of Minsk Region in Belarus.[3] Its administrative center is Slutsk.[1] As of 2024, it has a population of 85,537.[1]
Notable residents
- Alena Kish (1889 or 1896, Ramanava (now Lenina) village - 1949), Belarusian primitivist painter[4] [5]
- Jurka Listapad (1897, Varkavičy village - 1938), active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and anti-Soviet resistance, publicist and a victim of Stalin's purges of 1937–38.[6]
- Mikola Statkevich (b. 1956, Liadna village), Belarusian politician and political prisoner[7] [8]
- Uladzimier Teraŭski (1871, the village of Ramanaŭ (currently known as the village of Lenin) - 1938), Belarusian composer, choirmaster and a victim of Stalin's purges. He wrote music to a number of popular Belarusian songs such as Vajacki Marš and Kupalinka[9]
Notes and References
- Web site: Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа. https://web.archive.org/web/20240402055418/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/. 2 April 2024. belsat.gov.by. 12 June 2024.
- Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
- Web site: 2009 Belarusian census . belstat.gov.by. Belarusian. 11 November 2011.
- https://www.svaboda.org/a/25259430.html Сьмерць народнай мастачкі — самагубства ці няшчасны выпадак? (The death of a folk artist - was it a suicide or an accident?)
- https://www.nlb.by/en/news/through-the-pages-of-the-belarusian-calendar/a-song-about-life-in-paradise-the-intimate-art-of-elena-kish/ A song about life in paradise: the intimate art of Elena Kish
- Арлоў, Уладзімер (2020). ІМЁНЫ СВАБОДЫ (Бібліятэка Свабоды. ХХІ стагодзьдзе.) [''[[Uładzimir Arłou]]. The Names of Freedom (The Library of Freedom. ХХІ century).] (PDF) (in Belarusian) (4-е выд., дап. ed.). Радыё Свабодная Эўропа / Радыё Свабода - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. pp. 178–179.
- http://spring96.org/en/news/97953 Viasna condemns persecution of opposition leader Statkevich as politically motivated
- https://www.svaboda.org/a/25073322.html Statkevič not permitted to receive greeting cards (Статкевічу не перадаюць віншавальныя паштоўкі)
- http://www.marakou.by/by/davedniki/sviashchenniki_tom2/tom-ii/index_26320.html Маракоў, Леанід. "Рэпрэсаваныя літаратары, навукоўцы, работнікі асветы, грамадскія і культурныя дзеячы Беларусі. 1794-1991. ТЭРАЎСКІ (ТЕРРАВСКИЙ) Уладзімір" [Repressed writers, scientists, educators, public and cultural figures of Belarus. 1794-1991. Teraŭski Uladzimier]
