Malaya Byerastavitsa Explained

53.2667°N 78°W

Malaya Byerastavitsa
Settlement Type:	Village
Total Type:
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Belarus
Subdivision Type1:	Region
Subdivision Name1:	Grodno Region
Subdivision Type2:	District
Subdivision Name2:	Byerastavitsa District
Coordinates:	53.2667°N 78°W
Pushpin Map:	Belarus
Timezone1:	MSK
Utc Offset1:	+3

Malaya Byerastavitsa (Belarusian: Малая Бераставіца; Russian: Малая Берестовица|Malaya Berestovitsa; Polish: Brzostowica Mała; Lithuanian: Mažoji Berestovitsa) is a village in Byerastavitsa District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It is located near the city of Grodno.

From 1920 to 1939, it belonged to the Second Polish Republic and was part of Białystok Voivodeship. A massacre of Polish inhabitants occurred there in 1939.^[1]

The village has a Russian Orthodox church named after Saint Dimitri Solunski (built in 1868),^[2] and a museum.^[3] An eighteenth-century estate located in Malaya Byerastavitsa is the district's architectural monument.^[4]

References

Sights of Malaya Berestovitsa

Notes and References

Web site: Powstanie skidelskie 1939 . Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne, nr 7 . 1997 . December 13, 2012 . . Białystok . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716065744/http://kamunikat.fontel.net/www/czasopisy/bzh/07/07art_wierzbicki.htm . July 16, 2011 .
Web site: Archived copy . www.orthos.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050502072745/http://www.orthos.org/grodno/structura_region/structura_b.htm . 2005-05-02.
Web site: Berestovitsa region | Regions | Region | Grodno Oblast Executive Committee . 2008-10-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101029212448/http://www.region.grodno.by/en/region/regions/berestovitsa . 2010-10-29 .
http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/grodno/berestovitsar/