Muravanaya Ashmyanka Explained

Muravanaya Ashmyanka
Settlement Type:Agrotown
Pushpin Map:Belarus
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Belarus
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Grodno Region
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Ashmyany District
Timezone:MSK
Utc Offset:+3
Coordinates:54.4603°N 25.7819°W

Muravanaya Ashmyanka (Belarusian: Мураваная Ашмянка; Russian: Мурованая Ошмянка|Murovanaya Oshmyanka; Polish: Murowana Oszmianka) is an agrotown in Ashmyany District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Muravanaya Ashmyanka selsoviet.[1] It is located located northwest from Ashmyany and from the railway station Ashmyany. In 1999, there were 338 villagers and 134 dwellings.

The village is the administrative center of the local rural council and collective farm, has a hospital and a high school. There still remains the ruined printing house, which was owned in beginning of the 17th century by Krzysztof Dorohostajski, and was the printing place of the Salinarius "Censura" in 1615 (the brick building completed possibly in 1590, converted to the palace residence in the 19th century). Also, there's Catholic church of Virgin Mary (wooden structure with a belltower, example of Baroque and Classicism and of folk wooden architecture; built in the end of the 18th — beginning of the 19th century, renewed in 1841 and 1874). During World War II (around May 1944) the village was the site of a battle between Polish resistance and Lithuanian auxiliary Local Lithuanian Detachment.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gaponenko . Irina Olegovna . Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць . 2004 . Minsk . Тэхналогія . 105 . 985-458-098-9.