Minsk District (Belarusian: Мінскі раён, Russian: Минский район) is a second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in Minsk Region.
The administrative seat is the city of Minsk, administratively separated from the raion. The most populated town of the proper raion 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 Vilejka, Lahoysk, Smalyavichy, Chervyen, Pukhavichy, Uzda, Dzyarzhynsk, Valozhyn and Maladzyechna.
Subdivision
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 (Machulishi), and 34 simple municipalities (Population as of 2009).
- Minsk (1,837,000)
- Zaslawye (14,400)
- Machulishchy (8,000)
- Borzdyn Moloyo
- Butsevichi
- Chuchany
- Gorodzishko (Kolodishansky)
- Gorodzishko (Shomyslitsky)
- Gotovo
- Ignatichi
- Karalishovichi
- Kosin
- Novoye Polye
- Novy Dvor Bolodkovichov
- Novy Dvor Bungenov
- Obchok
- Onopol
- Ostroshitski
- Ostroshitski Gorodok
- Papernya
- Potomka
- Pryluki
- Pyatsovshchina
- Rovbitsi
- Rusinovitsi
- Senitsa
- Solomorechcho
- Samachvalavičy
- Stayki
- Staroye Selo
- Strochitsy
- Syomkov
- Syomkov Gorodok
- Torosov
- Tsna
- Vyovkabitsi
- Zamostochye
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