Pyetrykaw District or Pietrykaŭ District ( be, Петрыкаўскі раён, Pietrykaŭski rajon; russian: Петриковский район) is a district ( raion) of Gomel Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is

Pyetrykaw Pietrykaŭ ( be, Петрыкаў (Pietrykaŭ), russian: Петриков (Petrikov), pl, Petrików), is a town in the Gomel Region, Belarus. It is the administrative seat of Pietrykaŭ District. At the 2009 census, its population was 10,591. Ge ...

Notable residents

Aleś Dudar Aleś Dudar () was a pen name of Aliaksandr Dajlidovič (; 24 December 1904 – 29 October 1937), Belarusian poet, critic, translator and a victim of Stalin's purges. Early life Dudar was born into the family of a farm labourer in the village ...

(1904, Navasiolki village – 1937), Belarusian poet, critic, translator and a victim of

Stalin's purges The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secreta ...

Mikhail Marynich Mikhail Afanasievich Marynich ( be, Міхаіл Апана́савіч Марыніч; russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Маринич, 13 January 1940 — 17 October 2014) was a Belarusian diplomat, public figure, and opposition leade ...

(1940, Staryja Haloǔčycy village – 2014), Belarusian diplomat, public figure and political prisonerBelarusian opposition takes heart

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Districts of Gomel Region {{Belarus-geo-stub