Kobryn District (Belarusian: Кобрынскі раён; Russian: Кобринский район) is a district (raion) of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Kobryn.[1] There are 162 settlements in the district, of which one is urban and 161 are rural. Rural settlements are part of 11 selsoviets. As of 2024, the district has a population of 81,672.[1]
Demographics
According to the 2009 Belarusian census, the district had a population of 88,037 people,[2] of which 51,166 people lived in Kobryn, and the remaining 36,871 in rural areas. 87.9% are of Belarusian, 6.1% Russian, 4.5% Ukrainian and 0.6% Polish ethnicity. 51.2% speak Russian and 43.1% Belarusian as their native language. In 2023, it had a population of 82,198.[3]
Among the attractions of the area 15 archeological monuments, 26 architectural monuments, 3 historical monument, the park is named after Suvorov.
Among the monuments in the local account, there are:
12 archeological sites;
9 ancient tombs and boulders;
35 monuments of the cult-building;
9 estates;
3 historical monument and a memorial plaque dedicated to the War of 1812;
9 historical monuments from the First World War and the Russo-Polish War (6 military cemeteries from World War I);
5 historical times Kobrinschiny part II of Poland;
93 monuments of the Second World War;
14 monuments of the famous countrymen and government leaders. Also near the village tract in Lyahchitsy Kniazha Mountain is the tomb, which is buried in the national tradition Saint Olga.
