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Bielinek

The first record of Bielinek can be considered the 1st half of the 16th century, in 1546 in the description of the borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of Poland under the name Belin Second. From 1795 in the Russian Empire, in Kobryn district, Slonim district, from 1797 Lithuanian, from 1801 Grodno province. In 1858 it was a part of Osowiec volost, Kobryn district, the center of Belinsk village community.

Brashevich Orthodox Church

The modern Orthodox church in Braszewicze was built in 1911 from brick. The iconostasis of the church was made in 1867 by engineer Kandruntsev (transferred from the previous church). During the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska, II Rzeczpospolita) 1918 - 1939. On maps it is marked as a church. Schubert’s maps of 1866-1887 indicate the church in Braszewicze as Orthodox. Schubert maps 1866-1887. In the book “Descriptions of churches and parishes.