Minsk District
Introduction View of a house in the Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, located in Strochitsy.Ostroshitski Gorodok lake'''Minsk District''' (; ) is a district (raion) of Belarus in Minsk Region. The administrative center is the capital Minsk, which is administratively separated from the district and region. The most populous town in the district is Zaslawye.
Geography The district is situated both in the middle of Minsk Region and of the Belarus. It is crossed by the Svislach River and the towns around Minsk are part of its metropolitan area.It borders, from north to south in a clockwise sense, with the districts of Vileyka, Lahoysk, Smalyavichy, Chervyen, Pukhavichy, Uzda, Dzyarzhynsk, Valozhyn and Maladzyechna.
Administrative divisions The district is divided into 18 rural councils (''sieĺsaviets'') and 37 municipalities (including Minsk).===Rural councils===The 18 ''sieĺsaviets'' are: Astrašycki Haradok, Baraŭliany, Harani, Ždanovičy, Juzufova, Kalodziščy, Krupica, Lašany, Luhavaja Slabada, Michanavičy, Novy Dvor, Papiernia, Piatryški, Samachvalavičy, Sienica, Chaciežyna, Šaršuny, Ščomyslica.===Municipalities===The 37 municipalities counts one autonomous city (Minsk), one town (Zaslawye), one urban-type settlement (Machulishchy), and 34 simple municipalities (population as of 2009).
Notable residents *Yan Matusevich (1946, Komenka village – 1998), first dean of the modern Belarusian Greek Catholic Church *Ernst Sabila (1932, Dzehciaroŭka village – 2022), Belarusian Protestant religious leader, dissident and Gulag survivor
See also * Minsk Automobile Ring Road
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