Muravanaya Ashmyanka (; ; ; ) is an agrotown in Ashmyany District, Grodno Region,

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. It serves as the administrative center of Muravanaya Ashmyanka

selsoviet A selsoviet (; , ; ) is the shortened name for Selsky soviet, i.e., rural council (; ; ). It has three closely related meanings: *The administration (''soviet (council), soviet'') of a certain rural area. *The territorial subdivision administered ...

. It is located located northwest from

Ashmyany Ashmyany or Oshmyany is a city in Grodno Region, Belarus. It is located from Vilnius in Lithuania, and serves as the administrative center of Ashmyany District. The river Ashmyanka passes through the city. As of 2025, it has a population of 16 ...

and from the railway station

. In 1999, there were 338 villagers and 134 dwellings. In 2009, it received the status of agrotown. As of 2015, it has a population of 415. The village is the administrative center of the local rural council and collective farm, has a hospital and a high school. There still remains the ruined printing house, which was owned in beginning of the 17th century by , and where Woiciech Salinarius's ''Censura'' was printed in 1615Czesław Jankowski
''POWIAT OSZMIAŃSKI. Materiały do dziejów ziemi i ludzi''
St. Petersburg, Księgarnia Polska of Kazimierz Grendyszyński (and other prints), 1896 (the brick building completed possibly in 1590, converted to the palace residence in the 19th century). There is also a Catholic church of Virgin Mary (wooden structure with a belltower, example of Baroque and Classicism and of folk wooden architecture; built in the end of the 18th — beginning of the 19th century, renewed in 1841 and 1874). During

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(around May 1944) the village was the site of a battle between Polish resistance and Lithuanian auxiliary Local Lithuanian Detachment.

References

Sources

* Belarusian Encyclopedia, Vol.11, 2000; Collection of Historical and Cultural Artifacts of Belarus, Hrodna Voblast volume, 1986. * Agrotowns in Belarus Ashmyany district Populated places in Grodno region {{Belarus-geo-stub