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 |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 415 |
Timezone: | MSK |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 54.4603°N 25.7819°W |
Muravanaya Ashmyanka (be|Мураваная Ашмянка; ru|Мурованая Ошмянка|Murovanaya Oshmyanka; pl|Murowana Oszmianka; lt|Ašmenėlė) 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. In 2009, it received the status of agrotown.[2] As of 2015, it has a population of 415.
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, and where Woiciech Salinarius's Censura was printed in 1615[3] (the brick building completed possibly in 1590, converted to the palace residence in the 19th century). There is also a 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.