Slutsk district
District of Minsk region, Belarus
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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]
Settlements
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]