As we can see on the military topographical map of the Russian Empire of 1843-1863, there was no settlement on the site of today’s village of Hnilec: On the three-turn map we can already see that the folfark Latoryn appears: In 1905 there is a mention of the folwark Latoryn in Chomsk parish, Kobryn district, Grodno province, there were 8 inhabitants. On the one-turn map there is already our settlement Hnilec in 3 places, and instead of our folvark Latoryn there is a tract Latoryn.