Sapotskin is a small town in Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

, 27 kilometres (16.8 mi) north-east of Hrodna

Hrodna

Grodno or Hrodna , is a city in Belarus. It is located on the Neman River , close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania . It has 327,540 inhabitants...

. It has circa 2,000 inhabitants, almost exclusively identifying themselves as ethnic Poles.

It is one of the centers of the Polish minority in Belarus and the death-place of Gen. Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński

Józef Olszyna-Wilczynski

Józef Konstanty Olszyna-Wilczyński was a Polish general and one of the high-ranking commanders of the Polish Army. A veteran of World War I, Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Bolshevik War, he was murdered by the Soviets during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.-Early life:Józef Wilczyński was...

. It is also the only town in Belarus where the Polish minority was allowed to use bilingual street signs.

Attractions

• burial mound (10-11 cent.) - archaeological monument, on the western outskirts of the village
• Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (early 20th Century)
• Sapotskinsky Biological Reserve
  Sapotskinsky Biological Reserve
  Sapotskinsky biological reserve - reserve of national importance in the Grodno region .Established in 1978 in order to protect natural reserves of medicinal plants, landscape and floral complexes of rare and endangered species. Area - 12,600 hectares ....
  
    (Augustów Canal
  Augustów Canal
  The Augustów Canal is a cross-border canal built in the 19th century in the present-day Podlaskie Voivodeship of northeastern Poland and the Hrodna Voblast of north-western Belarus...
  
  )

External links

• Old pictures of Sopockinie