Malaya Berestovitsa

Coordinates: 53°16′N 23°55′E / 53.267°N 23.917°E / 53.267; 23.917

Malaya Byerastavitsa
—  Village  —
Malaya Byerastavitsa
Coordinates: 53°16′N 23°55′E / 53.267°N 23.917°E / 53.267; 23.917
Country	Belarus
Voblast	Hrodna Voblast

Malaya Berestovitsa (Belarusian: Малая Бераставіца, Russian: Малая Берестовица, Polish: Brzostowica Mała) is a village in Belarus, Hrodna voblast, Berestovitsa Raion. It's located near the city of Grodno. From 1920 till 1939 it belonged to Second Republic of Poland and was part of the Białystok Voivodeship (1919-1939). A massacre of Polish inhabitants occurred there in 1939.

Village has a Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Dimitri Solunski (built in 1868)^[1] and a museum^[2] An eighteenth-century estate located in Malaya Berestovitsa is district’s architectural monument^[3].

External links

Sights of Malaya Berestovitsa

References

1. ^ http://www.orthos.org/grodno/structura_region/structura_b.htm
2. ^ http://region.grodno.by/en/region/regions/berestovitsa
3. ^ http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/grodno/berestovitsar/