Baranavichy district or Baranavičy districtOfficial transliteration from Belarusian language (2007) (; ) is a district (raion) of Brest region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Baranavichy, which is administratively separated from the district. As of 2024, it has a population of 27,287.
Demographics At the time of the 2009 Belarusian census, Baranavichy district had a population of 41,902. Of these, 86.9% were of Belarusian, 5.9% Polish, 5.2% Russian and 1.1% Ukrainian ethnicity. 81.6% spoke Belarusian and 16.6% Russian as their native language.
Notable residents
Adam Mickiewicz (1798, Zavosse village – 1855), poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist and translator
Jan (Ivan) Sierada (1879, Zadzveja village – 1943), Belarusian statesman, writer, first president of the Belarusian Democratic RepublicBaranavichy Activists Revive Memory of Ivan Serada
See also
The Holocaust in Baranavichy district
References