Top:Polessky State University, Paliessie Drama Theater, Palace of Butrymowicz, Center:Pinsk Blessed Virgin Mary's Cathedral, Bottom:Pinsk Saint Barbara Church, Pinsky Jesuit Collegium (all item from left to right)
Pinsk (Belarusian: Пінск; Russian: Пинск, IPA:[pʲinsk]; Polish: Pińsk; Ukrainian: Пінськ; Yiddish: פינסק) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Pinsk District, though it is administratively separated from the district.[1] It is located in the historical region of Polesia, at the confluence of the Pina River and the Pripyat River. The region was known as the Pinsk Marshes and is southwest of Minsk. As of 2023, it has a population of 124,613.[1]
The historic city has a restored city centre, with two-storey buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The centre has become an active place for youths of all ages with summer theme parks and a new association football stadium, which houses the city's football club, FC Volna Pinsk.
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Pinsk (Belarusian: Пінск; Russian: Пинск, IPA: [pʲinsk]; Polish: Pińsk; Ukrainian: Пінськ; Yiddish: פינסק) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves...
The Pinsk Marshes (Belarusian: Пінскія балоты, romanized: Pinskiya baloty), also known as the Pripet Marshes (Belarusian: Прыпяцкія балоты, romanized: Prypiackija...
Pinsk Region (Pinsk Voblasts, Belarusian: Пінская вобласць, Russian: Пинская Область) was a territorial unit in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic...
Belarusian: Таццяна Тарчыла, romanized: Tatstsiana Tarchyla, 8 November 1986 in Pinsk, Soviet Union) is a professional snooker referee. She is an official referee...
The Principality of Turov, later called the Principality of Turov and Pinsk (Belarusian: Турава-Пінскае княства, romanized: Turava-Pinskaje kniastva;...
Johannes Pinsk (4 February 1891 in Szczecin – 21 May 1957 in Berlin-Dahlem) was a German Catholic theologian and professor. Pinsk studied theology in Breslau...
The Pinsk massacre was the mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk on April 5, 1919, by the Polish Army. The Polish commander "sought to...
Aaron of Pinsk, also Aharon Kretinger, was a rabbi in Kretinga, in the Kovno Governorate, and afterward in Pinsk, where he died in 1841. He wrote Tosafot...
FC Volna Pinsk is a Belarusian football club based in Pinsk, Brest Oblast. The club plays in the Belarusian First League. The club was established in 1987...
swampy areas of central Polesia are known as the Pinsk Marshes (after the major local city of Pinsk). Large parts of the region were contaminated after...
The 1943 Pinsk Prison raid was one of the most spectacular raids in the history of the Home Army and the Polish Underground State. It took place on 18...
Pinsk District (Belarusian: Пінскі раён, romanized: Pinski rajon; Russian: Пинский район, romanized: Pinsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Brest Region...
The Diocese of Pinsk (Latin: Pinsken(sis) Latinorum, Belarusian: Пінская) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Belarus. It is a suffragan...
Brest Region 350,616 7 Babruysk Mogilev Region 216,793 8 Baranavichy Brest Region 179,000 9 Barysaw Minsk Region 142,681 10 Pinsk Brest Region 137,960...
township in Ivanava Raion of Brest Region located about 30 kilometres west of Pinsk on the Yaselda River in Belarus. Founded as a royal city of the Polish-Lithuanian...
the Jews of Pinsk (4 July 1941 – 23 December 1942)". The Book of Pinsk. Chapter 3: The Oppressors in Action. The Jewish Community of Pinsk. Archived from...
stationed in 1655, and also Pinsk, (both now in Belarus). On 16 May 1657, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, he was captured in Pinsk, and then killed in the...
from Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk counties. It was created from southern part of Trakai Voivodeship in 1566. In 1791 Kobryn and Pinsk-Zarzeche (Its center was...
territory to the west, with the Baranavichy, Belastok (Białystok), Brest, Pinsk, and Vileyka oblasts. In 1944, Belastok was eliminated and the new oblasts...
center is Brest. Other major cities in the region include Baranavichy, and Pinsk. As of 2024, it has a population of 1,308,569. It is located in the southwestern...
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