Pinsk is the administrative center of one of the districts of the Brest region, located in the Republic of Belarus. It is an important regional industrial, cultural and religious center. Both Catholicism and Orthodoxy are developed here. Among the population there are many Jews. Pinsk is also an important historical site. The area of the city is 4736 ha or 47.36 km 2 . The population of Pinsk is 137,961 people.
The name of the city is associated with the Pina river, which is a tributary of the river. Pripyat.
Geographic features
The city is located at a distance of 186 km east of Brest and at a distance of 304 km southwest of Minsk. This settlement is located in the area of the mouth of the river. Pins. The time zone corresponds to Minsk. The city is characterized by a flat type of relief.
The climate in Pinsk is moderately continental or weakly continental. The influence of oceanic air masses and Atlantic cyclones coming from the west is quite large. Due to this, winter is relatively warm and snowy, and summer is mild.
In January, the average temperature is minus 4 degrees, and in July +19.1. About 600 mm of moisture falls out per year, and the frequency of precipitation is high. Most rain - 86 mm - falls in July. The driest month is March.
The city of Pinsk is located in an area of active agricultural activity and is therefore surrounded by farmland.
Economics and transport
The economy of Pinsk is based on the work of industrial enterprises. Their total number is over 50. Production largely determines the employment of the city population. Most important is the processing of wood. This is followed by the light and food industries. In fourth place is engineering.
Pinsk is an important transportation hub. Highways and river transport routes converge here. The city runs mainly buses. Their total number is 120 units.
The population of Pinsk
Now, as mentioned above, the population of the city is approximately 138 thousand people. The number of inhabitants of the city slowly increased until 1959, and then the speed of this process increased significantly. In 1959, the number of inhabitants of Pinsk was 41,500, and in 1974 - 77,100. Since the beginning of the 90s, the growth rate has slowed, and since 1996 the population growth has practically stopped. By this time, the number of inhabitants was approximately 130 thousand people. Approximately such indicators for the population and still.
The population density of Pinsk is 2,759 people / km 2 .
Pinsk is on the tenth line in the number of inhabitants among the cities of Belarus. Within the Brest region, it is in third place. The share of the population of Pinsk from the total number of residents of this republic is up to 1.5%.
Residents of the city are called Pinchans. The male is Pincian, and the female is Pinch.
National composition of the population
The city is among the multinational. In the national composition, of course, most of all are Belarusians. They are almost 85 percent. Significantly fewer Russians - 9%, even less (3.5%) Ukrainians. This is followed by Poles (1%) and Jews (0.15%).
Pinsk's place in the total population of Belarus
As already mentioned, Pinsk is only in 10th place in terms of the number of inhabitants of the cities of this republic. Immediately above it is the city of Borisov with a population of 143,919 people. In eighth place - Baranavichy (179 122 people). The seventh line is occupied by Bobruisk (population 217 975 people). Brest is in sixth place (the number of inhabitants is 340,141 people). On the fifth and fourth - Grodno and Vitebsk with a population of 365 610 and 368 574 people, respectively. In third place is Mogilev (378,077 inhabitants), and in second place is Gomel (521,452). The first place, of course, is in Minsk (1 million 959 thousand 781 people).
In most cities (with the exception of Borisov and Bobruisk), there is a positive dynamics in the number of inhabitants. This indicates an increase in the population of Belarus.
Conclusion
Thus, the population dynamics of the city of Pinsk testifies to the stability of the demographic and socio-economic situation in this locality. Apparently, the crisis of the 90s had a weak effect on the quality of life of citizens. This is confirmed by a large number of operating enterprises of various profiles. From this we can conclude that residents consider this city to be quite acceptable for life and are not too keen on moving to other regions or to Minsk.
It is known that Belarus has chosen for itself a relatively socialist path of development. Good demographic indicators may be indirect evidence of the correctness of the course chosen by the authorities of this country.