Subotniki | |
Native Name: | |
Settlement Type: | Agrotown |
Pushpin Map: | Belarus |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Belarus |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Grodno Region |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Iwye District |
Timezone: | MSK |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 54.0936°N 25.75°W |
Subotniki or Subbotniki (be|Суботнікі; ru|Суботники, Субботники) is an agrotown in Iwye District, Grodno Region, Belarus.[1] It serves as the administrative center of Subotniki selsoviet.[2]
Subotniki was a private town of the Radziwiłł family,[3] administratively located in the Oszmiana County in the Vilnius Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Subotniki was administratively located in the Wołożyn County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of interwar Poland. According to the 1921 census, the population was 89.9% Polish and 10.1% Jewish.[4]
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the town was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union afterwards.