Oranchitsy

Oranchitsy are located 11 km southeast of Pruzhany . The village adjoins from the south to the center of the village council, the agro-town of Linovo , two settlements are separated by the railway Brest - Minsk . The village has a train station . A local highway Pruzhany - Linovo - Zaprudy passes through Oranchitsy, another road leads from Oranchitsy to the village of Vorotno. The area belongs to the Vistula basin , 3 km to the west flows the river Mukhavets ^[2] .

The Oranchitsa settlement was an ancestral estate of the Oransky family, during the time of King Sigismund Augustus, the Oranskyi founded the estate here and in 1560 built a wooden manor house on a brick foundation, in 1600 Simeon of Oransky built the first wooden temple in the estate. Later the estate was transferred to the Izhitsky family, and then Ignatius Lezhensky, a participant in the Kosciuszko uprising , went as a dowry.

After the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the settlement passed to the Russian Empire and entered the Pruzhany district of Slonim , then Lithuania and even later the Grodno province. According to the 1897 census, there were 523 inhabitants and 73 courtyards ^[3] .

In 1914 a new stone Cross Exaltation Church was built ^[4] .

According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), the village became part of interwar Poland . In 1921, there were 371 inhabitants in the village, 71 courtyards, 35 inhabitants in the estate, 4 houses. Since 1939, as part of the BSSR .

• Orthodox church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross . Monument of architecture of the neo-Russian style ^[4] . The church is included in the State list of historical and cultural values ​​of the Republic of Belarus ^[5] .
• The grave of the victims of fascism. In 1971, an obelisk was installed ^[4] .

• Oranchitsy on the “Globe of Belarus”
• Oranchitsy on the website radzima.org