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The toponym Grozov was formed on behalf of the “thunderstorm”.

For the first time, Grozov was mentioned in the first half of the 16th century as a village of the Slutsk principality , the possession of Olelkovichi . In 1582 there existed the village of the same name, folk farm and noble property. In the second half of the XVI century - the first half of the XVII century, the area was in the possession of the Volodkovichi, who founded two Orthodox churches and the St. Nicholas Monastery here (all in the jurisdiction of the Kiev Greek Catholic Metropolis ). According to the inventory of 1650 , there was a courtyard of the same name (4 residential buildings and 5 outbuildings) and a farm, there was a brewery, a mill and a threshing floor .

In the second half of the XVII century, Grozov passed to the Radziwills . In 1690 there were 66 courtyards here. In the XVIII century, Grozov was in the possession of the Nezabytovsky, with whom he received the status of a township. In 1791, the area became part of the Slutsk district.

As a result of the second division of the Commonwealth in 1793, Grozov became part of the Russian Empire , where he became the center of the volost of the Slutsk district of the Minsk province . At different times, the place was in the possession of Mezheevsky, Wittgenstein , Hohenlohe. In 1800 there were 30 courtyards, two wooden monasteries (St. John the Evangelist with the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin and St. Nicholas with the church of the same name) and a chapel, a tavern and a mill worked, regular fairs and weekly auctions were held; in 1845 - 19 yards. In 1864, with the aim of Russification of the region, the Russian authorities opened a public school in Grozovo. In 1870 - 99 courtyards, three Orthodox churches, a church, a chapel, two Jewish prayer houses. Through trade routes, Grozov was connected with the towns of Kopyl , Bobovnya, Novy Sverzhen and the city of Nesvizh . In 1886, there were three Orthodox churches, a volost government, a brewery, three inns, 11 shops, a public school, and two Jewish schools. According to the 1897 census, there were 150 courtyards in Grozovo, a church, a chapel, a post office, a public school, 24 shops, a pottery factory, and two taverns. At the beginning of the XX century, 177 yards. In 1912, a 2-class rural and 1-class public school worked. In 1917 - 188 yards, distillery and mead factory. During the First World War in February - December 1918, the place was occupied by German troops, in August 1919 - July and October - November 1920 - the Polish army.

On March 25, 1918, according to the Third Charter, Grozov was declared part of the Belarusian People’s Republic , and in November 1920, the Grozovsky regiment was formed in Slutsk and the town of Semezhevo with the Belarusian police of the Slutsk district. Before the suppression of the uprising by the Bolsheviks on December 4, 1920, power in the town was controlled by the forces of the BNR .

In 1921, consumer societies, a paramedic, two schools, a wine factory worked in Grozovo; for 1923 - 7-year-old and Jewish schools, a hut-reading room, medical assistant, 6 artisans (shoemakers, tailors, blacksmiths). On August 20, 1924, Grozovo became the center of the village council of the Gressky district , at that time there were 182 yards. On July 8, 1931, the place became part of the Kopyl region (from February 12, 1935 to December 17, 1956 again in the Gressky district). In the 1930s, the International collective farm, a blacksmith's shop, shoe repair, a hat factory, industrial workshops, a dairy, an oil mill, a cloth mill, a large-sized mill, and a salted meat farm worked in Grozovo. September 27, 1938 the status of the settlement was reduced to the village. During the Second World War, from June 29, 1941 to July 1, 1944, Grozovo was under German occupation.

In 1971, there were 189 yards in Grozovo, and in 1997 there were 197 households, a machine yard, a veterinary station, a secondary school, a culture center, a library, an outpatient clinic, a post office, a public services factory, and five shops. In the 2000s, Grozovo received the official status of an agro-town . For 2007 - 167 households, for 2010 - 159.

• 1763 - 267 people;
• 1800 - 166 people;
• 1845 - 97 people;
• 1870 - 376 people;
• 1886 - 156 people;
• 1897 - 861 people in the town of Grozov , 41 people in the estate of Grozov ;
• 1901 - 1032 people;
• 1917 - 1194 people;
• 1924 - 1,007 people;
• 1960 - 656 people;
• 1971 - 587 people;
• 1992 - 498 people;
• 1997 - 481 people;
• 2007 - 428 people;
• 2010 - 427 people;
• 2018 - 393 people ^[2] .

In Grozovo, there is a school, a preschool, a hospital, two libraries, a cultural center, and a post office.

In Grozovo, on the former Market Square, near the church building, a memorial cross was erected in honor of the defenders of independence of Belarus .

• Distillery (beginning of XX century);
• Trading rows (2nd half of the 19th century);
• Church in Honor of the Descent of the Savior from the Cross (1802; now a club);
• Jewish cemetery;
• Merzheevsky Palace (2nd half of the 18th century).

• Monastery of St. John the Evangelist;
• Church of St. Nicholas.

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