Stepanki ( Belorussian Sciapankі ) is an agro-town in the Zhabinka district of the Brest region of Belarus . Center of the Stepankovsky Village Council . The population of 280 people (2009) [1] .
| Agro-town | |
| Stepanki | |
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| Belor. Scapanki | |
| A country |  Belarus |
| Region | Brest |
| Area | Zhabinkovsky |
| Village Council | Stepankovsky |
| History and Geography | |
| First mention | 1589 |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 280 people ( 2009 ) |
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Geography
Stepanki is located 8 km north of Zhabinka near the border with the Kamenets district . The village of Spitali adjoins the village from the south . To the west of the village is the Zhabinka-Kamenetz highway, local roads connect Stepanki with the villages of Zhitin, Olizarov-Stav and Konotopy. The area belongs to the Vistula basin , near the village begins the Sekhnovichi Canal with a drain to Mukhavets [2] . The nearest railway station in Zhabinka (line Brest - Baranovichi ).
History
The first mention of Stepankov in written sources dates from 1589, in 1619 the church was first mentioned [3] . In the middle of the XVII century, the village was attached to the Sehnovichi estate. In 1656, Sofya Muralovskaya from the Kostyushko clan received the rights to Stepanki, the following year she ceded the estate to her nephew A. Ya. Kostyushko.
Until 1780, the wooden Mikhailovsky Church, preserved to this day, was built [4] .
After the third division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795) as part of the Russian Empire, from 1801 Stepanki belonged to the Grodno province [5] .
In 1862, a public school was opened, in 1911 - a library. According to the 1897 census, there were 57 yards in Stepanki with 432 inhabitants [3] .
According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), the village became part of interwar Poland , where it belonged to the Polessky Voivodeship . Since 1939 - as part of the BSSR [5] .
| External Images | |
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| St. Michael's Church on the website globus.tut.by | |
Attractions
- St. Michael's Church. The wooden Orthodox church was built before 1780. Architectural monument. At the beginning of the 20th century, a three-tier bell tower was attached to the entrance to the church [4] . The church is included in the State list of historical and cultural values of the Republic of Belarus [6] .
Notes
- ↑ Census results
- ↑ Map sheet N-34-144 Brest . Scale: 1: 100,000. Status of the terrain for 1982. 1986 edition
- ↑ 1 2 Gіstoryya Ssyapankaў
- ↑ 1 2 “Code of historical and cultural monuments of Belarus. Brest region". Minsk, publishing house "Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia named after Petrus Brovka", 1990
- ↑ 1 2 Garady and Belarusian Belarus: Enceklapedy ў 15 tomahs. T. 3, book. 1. Brescky Voblast / Pad Navuk. red A. І. Lakotki. - Mn .: BelEn, 2006. ISBN 985-11-0373-X
- ↑ Dzyarzhyna spіs gіstoryka-cultural kashtoўnastsey RB