Owners

The agro-town is located 17 km southeast of Vidz and 20 km north of Postavy . The owners are located in the southernmost point of the Braslav region, the state border with Lithuania passes a kilometer to the west, and the Postavy district begins to the south. Kozyany is a transport junction, highway P27 ( Braslav - Postavy ) passes through it, and highway P18 (Kozyany - Sharkovschina - Miory - Verkhnedvinsk ) also begins. Due to the proximity of the Lithuanian border, Kozyana enters the border zone of the Republic of Belarus with a special order of visits, but there is no border crossing in the village itself.

Owners stand on the left bank of the Disna River at the confluence of the Drysvyat River . A little lower than the Hosts, the Birveta River flows into Disna.

The first written mention of the Masters dates back to 1504. In 1514, the area was in the possession of the Zenovich family and was part of the Oshmyany district ^[2] .

According to the administrative-territorial reform of the middle of the 16th century, the Kozyans became part of the Braslav district of the Vilnius Voivodeship . In the XVII century the settlement was owned by Patsy . In 1686, the subcommittee F. Ya. Patz transferred part of his possessions to the Benedictine of Vilna, who built a Greek Catholic church in Kozyany.

As a result of the third division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795), the Hosts were part of the Russian Empire , in the Disney county of Vilna province . In 1800, the town was owned by N. Manuzi, there were 90 courtyards, the wooden Greek Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit. Nearby was the village of the same name (56 yards). During the Patriotic War, on July 1, 1812, a skirmish occurred near the town between the rearguard of the retreating cavalry corps P.P. Palen and the French. Since 1823 the settlement was owned by the Plater ^[2] .

As of 1866, there were 35 yards in the town. At the end of the 19th century, Count F. Plater founded cardboard, sawmill and shingle factories near the Kossians. Since 1895, there was a school in Kozyany, one of the oldest in the Braslav region. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Orthodox stone church of St. Of the Spirit. In World War I in September 1915, the Kozyans occupied German troops.

According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), the Kossians were included in the interwar Polish Republic , where they were part of the Braslav region of the Vilnius Voivodeship .

In 1939, the Kozyans became part of the Byelorussian SSR , where in 1940 they became the center of the village council of the Vidzovsky district (since 1960 in the Braslav district). In the Great Patriotic War from July 1941 to July 8, 1944, the Kozyans were under Nazi occupation. On the night before November 7, 1942, Lithuanian Soviet partisans from the Arlauskas group and Belarusian Soviet partisans defeated the garrison in the village of Kozyany, 150 were destroyed and captured 18 Nazis ^[3] .

In 1995, the village had 590 yards. In the owners is the center of the open joint-stock company "New Guard". Until 2003, the village was the center of the Kozyansky Village Council, which is now part of the Vidzovsky Village Council.

• Church of the Holy Spirit (no later than 1895).

Lost Legacy

• Holy Trinity Chapel

• Owners on the website globus.tut.by