Subotniki

For other uses, see Subbotnik (disambiguation).

Subotniki or Subbotniki (Belarusian: Суботнікі; Russian: Суботники, Субботники) is an agrotown in Iwye District, Grodno Region, Belarus.^[1] It serves as the administrative center of Subotniki selsoviet.^[2]

Subotniki Суботнікі (Belarusian) Суботники (Russian)
Agrotown
Church of Saint Vladislav
Subotniki
Coordinates: 54°05′37″N 25°45′00″E
Country	Belarus
Region	Grodno Region
District	Iwye District
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

History

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1882	523	—
1921	542	+3.6%
Source: [3][4]

Subotniki was a private town of the Radziwiłł family,^[5] administratively located in the Oszmiana County in the Vilnius Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.^{[citation needed]}

Subotniki was administratively located in the Wołożyn County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of interwar Poland. According to the 1921 census, the population was 89.9% Polish and 10.1% Jewish.^[4]

Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the town was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union afterwards.^{[citation needed]}

Notable people

• Jan Pazniak (1887 or 1895 – after October 1939), politician and publisher
• Zianon Pazniak (born 1944), politician and one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front