Kachychy (; ; ) is a village in Karelichy District, Grodno Region,

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. Since 2007, it has been part of Malyushychy

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 ...

; previously it was under district administration.

History

In the interwar period, the village was situated in the

Karelichy Karelichy is an urban-type settlement in Grodno Region, in west-central Belarus. It serves as the administrative centre of Karelichy District. As of 2025, it has a population of 5,546. History It was a possession of the Grand Duchy of Lithuani ...

Commune in Nowogródek County of the Nowogródek Voivodeship in the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I ...

. After the

Soviet invasion of Poland The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Second Polish Republic, Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Polan ...

in 1939, the village became part of the

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, Byelorussian SSR or Byelorussia; ; ), also known as Soviet Belarus or simply Belarus, was a Republics of the Soviet Union, republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). It existed between 1920 and 19 ...

. In the years 1941–1944, it was under German occupation. Then the village was again part of the Byelorussian SSR. From 1991, it became part of the Republic of Belarus.

Battle of Rowiny

In January 1945, the battle of Rowiny between the

Home Army The Home Army (, ; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) established in the ...

and the

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internal troops took place in this area. 89 Poles, soldiers of the "Tur" and "Grom" units of the Self-Defense of the Vilnius Land were killed. They were buried near Kachychy. In October 2021, the tombstone was devastated, and in July 2022 it was destroyed by the Belarusian authorities.

References

{{Authority control Villages in Belarus Populated places in Grodno region Karelichy district