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
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.

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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.
  2. Web site: Решение № 100 (Решение Ошмянского районного Совета депутатов от 27 января 2009 г. №100 «О преобразовании некоторых населенных пунктов Ошмянского района в агрогородки.») . etalonline.by . 27 January 2009 . 13 September 2024.
  3. Czesław Jankowski, POWIAT OSZMIAŃSKI. Materiały do dziejów ziemi i ludzi, St. Petersburg, Księgarnia Polska of Kazimierz Grendyszyński (and other prints), 1896