Bostyn ( Belorussian. Bastyn ) is an agro-town in the south-west of Belarus . The village is located in the Luninets district of the Brest region . It is the administrative center of the Bostyn village council . The population of 1342 people (2009) [2] .
| Agro-town | |||
| Bostyn | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| A country |  Belarus | ||
| Region | Brest | ||
| Area | Luninetsky | ||
| Village Council | Bostynsky | ||
| History and Geography | |||
| First mention | XV century | ||
| Timezone | UTC + 3 | ||
| Population | |||
| Population | 1342 people ( 2009 ) | ||
| Digital identifiers | |||
| Telephone code | +375 1647 | ||
| Postcode | 225654 [1] | ||
| Car code | one | ||
Content
- 1 Geography
- 2 History
- 3 natives
- 4 Attractions
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Geography
Bostyn is located 16 km northwest of the city of Luninets . The area belongs to the Dnieper basin, around the village there is a network of drainage channels with a drain into the Tsna River (the river itself flows 3 km east of the village). The railway line Luninets - Baranavichy (there is a railway station in the village) and the highway Luninets - Gantsevichi pass through Bostyn [3] .
History
First mentioned in the 15th century [4] . The village was part of the Pinsky district of the Beresteyskoe Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . After the second division of the Commonwealth (1793), Bostyn as part of the Russian Empire belonged to the Pinsk district of Minsk province [5] .
In 1750, the landowner Joseph Shield, the tenant of the village of Bostyn, built a church here in honor of St. Paraskeva at his own expense [6] .
According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), the village became part of interwar Poland , belonged to the Luninets County Polesie Voivodeship . Since 1939 - in the BSSR [5] .
In 1962, St. Paraskevin Church was completely destroyed, in 2001-2003 a new church was built. Paraskeva [6]
Natives
- Bushilo, Ivan Vasilievich - a peasant hiding from the police in the forest from 1947 to 1989.
- Kostyukov, Gennady Andreevich - mayor of the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region of Ukraine (2006-2014).
Attractions
- Orthodox church of st. Paraskevi. It was built of wood at the beginning of the XXI century near the site of a historic temple, destroyed in 1962.
- Crypt-tomb of F. Dvorakovskaya (1833) [7]
- Protestant temple. Built in the 1990s [7]
- Mass grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans. 66 soldiers who died in the year 44 during the liberation of the village were buried. In 1957, a monument was erected in the form of a sculpture of a soldier [8] .
- The grave of the victims of fascism. Located east of the village, at the railway crossing. 51 residents of the village who were shot by the Nazis in 1942 were buried [8] .
The tomb crypt and mass grave are included in the State list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Postcode of Bostyn Village Archived July 5, 2012 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Census results
- ↑ Map sheet N-35-126 Dyatlovichi . Scale: 1: 100,000. State of the terrain for 1986. 1991 edition
- ↑ Bostyn on the website radzima.org
- ↑ 1 2 Garady and Belarusian Belarus: Enceklapedy ў 15 tomahs. T. 4, book. 2. Brescky Voblast / Pad Navuk. red A. І. Lakotki. - Mn .: BelEn, 2006. ISBN 985-11-0373-X
- ↑ 1 2 Site of the Pinsk and Luninets diocese
- ↑ 1 2 Bostyn on the website globus.tut.by
- ↑ 1 2 “Code of historical and cultural monuments of Belarus. Brest region". Minsk, publishing house "Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia named after Petrus Brovka", 1990
- ↑ Dzyarzhyna spіs gіstoryka-cultural kashtoўnastsey RB