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Slutsk District

Slutsk District or Sluck District (Belarusian: Слуцкі раён; Russian: Слуцкий район) is a district (raion) of Minsk Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Slutsk. As of 2024, it has a population of 85,537.

Notable residents

  • Alena Kish (1889 or 1896, Ramanava (now Lenina) village - 1949), Belarusian primitivist painter
  • 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.
  • Mikola Statkevich (b. 1956, Liadna village), Belarusian politician and political prisoner
  • 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