Vasevichi (Grodno region)

Vasevichi is located 13 km southeast of Dyatlovo , 168 km from Grodno , 8 km from the railway station Novoelnya ^[3] .

In 1878, Vasevichi was a village in the Dvoretsky volost of the Slonim district of the Grodno province (34 yards, a drinking house) ^[3] . In 1880, 166 people lived in Vasevichi ^[3] .

According to the 1897 census, there were 50 houses in Vasevichi, 327 people lived ^[3] . In 1905 - 283 inhabitants ^[3] .

In 1921-1939, Vasevichi was part of the interwar Polish Republic . In September 1939, Vasevichi became part of the BSSR .

During the Great Patriotic War, a small German garrison and a detachment of police collaborators of Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian origin were located in the village, the observation post of the German security unit was located on the hill dominating in the settlement. Immediately before the war, near the village, in the direction of the modern railway station near the village of Dvorets, the construction of the Soviet field airfield was started by the workers and prisoners who temporarily lived in the village of Vasevichi in the built huts along Batraki Street. As a result of the swift German offensive of 1941, the evacuation of local residents was not carried out. During the Great Patriotic War, the local population actively collaborated with Soviet partisans, including part of guerrilla groups and helped them with provisions. in 1943, many young people from Vasevich and neighboring villages and villages were driven into slave labor in Germany. During the German retreat through the village of Dvorets towards the village of Rogotno, the village was supposed to be destroyed, according to the testimony of local residents, a day before the retreat a hasty census was carried out, as before in the village of Kotki, where the local population was destroyed by the Einsatzgruppes, but as a result of the rapid the offensive of the Soviet army, the Germans and collaborators hastily retreated, having thrown at the same time part of the equipment along with cars on the road to the village of Semenovichi, part of the cars managed to be mined, from which they did not suffer How many children. A significant part of the inhabitants of draft age for the liberation of the village joined the army of the USSR, in the post-war period, the collections and awards of WWII veterans were like in the local village club. Also in the village club in Soviet times a cinema room with a projector was equipped and a library was organized, in the post-Soviet time the club was closed in the 2000s, the book fund was taken out to the library of the village of Dvorets. In the early post-war years, there was an elementary school in the village, it was closed in the 70s. In the 80s, the village housed part of the stables and parking of agricultural machinery of the Zaslonov collective farm.

In 1996, Vasevichi was part of the K. Zaslonov collective farm. In the village there were 74 households, 143 people lived ^[3] .