Vornyany

The first written mention dates back to 1391. Since 1397, the Vornjany are mentioned among the settlements that Jagiello transferred to the Vilnius chapter. In 1462, Marina, the widow of Sunigailo , founded a church here. At the beginning of the XVI century the estate was owned by Pronsky and Svirsky . The last to be built here is a new church. In the 1st half of the 16th century a part of Varnjan was owned by Chizhi (Chizhevichi), at the end of the 16th century the estate passed into the possession of the Abramovich .

According to the administrative-territorial reform (1565-1566), the Vornjany became part of the Vilnius district of the Vilnius province . At the end of the 16th century, the governor of Smolensky, Yan Abramovich, founded the Calvinist camp here, in which by 1654 a hospital and a school operated.

In 1688, the Vornians received the status of a township . In the 2nd half of the 18th century, a reconstruction of its central part was carried out in the village on the basis of regular ensemble development.

As a result of the third division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795), the Vornjany became part of the Russian Empire , in the Vilna county of Vilna province .

In the 20s. XIX century Napoleon Horde captured the Vornians in his drawing.

In the 1880s there were 24 buildings in Vornanyany, a church, a house of worship, a school, a shelter, 18 shops, an inn; weekly tenders and 12 regular fairs were held. At the estate worked a mill, a brick factory, a brewery. In the 2nd half of the 19th - 1st half of the 20th centuries, the area was in the possession of the Snyadetsky.

On the eve of 1914 , Sigismund Khominsky acquired the Vornjany.

In World War I in 1915, the Vornians occupied German troops. In 1919-1920, the place included Polish troops, the Red Army. In 1920, the Vornians became part of Middle Lithuania , in 1922 - as part of the interwar Polish Republic , in the Oshmyany district of the Vilnius Voivodeship .

In 1939, the Vornjany became part of the BSSR , where since 1940 they became the center of the village council of the Ostrovets district. The status of the village was reduced to the village. From December 25, 1962 to January 6, 1965, the Vornyansky Village Council was part of the Oshmyany District . As of 1970, the village had 341 yards, for 1992-445.

• XIX century : 1885 - about 250 people.
• XX century : 1970-1284 people; 1992–1310 people.

In Vornjany there is a secondary school, an outpatient clinic, and a club.

Center of the agricultural enterprise "Vornyany". In the agro-town, the construction of the Belarusian NPP is underway ^[1] .

Attractions

• Historical buildings (late XVIII - 1st half. XX century; Fragments)
• Catholic church of St. George (1767-1769)
• The estate of Abramovich (XIX century)
• Cemeteries: old Catholic; wartime of the First World War; Polish soldiers killed in 1920

Lost Legacy

• Abramovich Palace (XVIII century.)

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  Manor Watchtower

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  The estate of Abramovich. N. Horde , XIX century

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  Catholic church of St. George N. Horde, XIX century

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• Ghetto in Vornjany

• Vornyany in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries (Polish)
• Vornany - Globe of Belarus