GP Ivenets. History of the town of Ivenets

A rather small but very interesting urban village in the Minsk region called Ivenets located on the Volma River among hills and forests. The distance to the nearest town of Volozhin is 31 km. About 4 thousand people live in the village. The layout of the village is very unique - in the center there is a square, from which the main streets radiate.

History of the village of Ivenets

Since the 14th century Ivenets was known as private estate of Prince Vytautas. Since 1940, the village became the center of the Ivenetsky district. During wartime, like many other cities in Belarus, Ivenets was under German occupation. It's always good in this locality pottery industry developed. The products were popular not only in the surrounding area and local cities, but were also exported to large markets. The fishery still exists today.

Sights of the village of Ivenets

The village of Ivenets has preserved many attractions that are worth paying attention to when visiting this region. The key asset of the village is a complex of buildings that belong to Franciscan monastery. It was built in 1702 on a hill near the local river. The place is very picturesque and creates a surprisingly beautiful overall picture. Over the course of its existence, it has been closed several times, but is currently operational.

The main building of the monastery is considered Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Baroque style. The construction of the temple was completed in 1749. Throughout the history of its existence, the monastery belonged to both Catholics and Orthodox Christians, it was closed and reopened. In 2003, restoration of the building began, which brought the temple to very good condition. It is worth noting that in the church there is an icon of the Mother of God, which is famous as miraculous.

In addition to the main church building, on the territory of the monastery there are a number of residential, utility and other buildings that are no less interesting for visitors. The entire complex of buildings of the monastery is an important cultural and historical value of Belarus. It’s really worth visiting here; you can learn a lot of new things and feel the pleasant and sincere atmosphere of this place.

Another important asset of the urban village can be called Catholic Church of St. Alexis. The date of construction of this building is considered to be 1907. It has survived to this day in good condition, is actively visited by visitors and is a property of Belarus. Behind the temple there is another architectural monument of the mid-19th century - a small chapel.

Also on the territory of the village of Ivenets there is Church of Euphrosyne. This modern building is located in the central square. Although the building is quite new, it is already arousing interest among tourists.

In this locality you can visit Plevako estate- built at the end of the 19th century. The central building of this complex has survived to this day in a state of ruins, but the stables and barn, having been restored, can be seen in good condition.

In the urban village of Ivenets there is such a variety of architectural monuments and historical values ​​that it is simply breathtaking. Each of them is special and interesting in its own way.

Ivenets is located 56 kilometers from Minsk, now it is the Volozhin district, and until 1965 it was the center of the Ivenets district.

The settlement arose in the 14th century. The place was first mentioned in 1522. The famous Belarusian fiction writer of the early 20th century. Yadvigin Sh. called Ivenets an “old-world town.”

Jews settled here at the end of the 16th century. As in other cities of Belarus, they were engaged in crafts and trade.

In 1897, Jews numbered 2,670 people or 50.2% of the total population.

“The synagogue appeared in Ivenets in 1912,” says Viktor Zagovalko, director of the Ivenets Museum of Traditional Culture. – But I am more inclined to believe that it was built at the end of the 19th century. There was another wooden synagogue located in the park. Before the war, the synagogues were operational. During the war, the large synagogue was almost completely preserved, only one shell hit it. Until the mid-60s of the 20th century, local authorities met there - there was a district executive committee, then a House of Culture: they sang and danced. In 2010, the synagogue was transferred to the Jewish Religious Association.

“Frescoes have been preserved under the plaster,” historian Alexander Bely showed me the synagogue and told me about it. “It would be good for specialists to take up its restoration.” There are no more Jews in Ivenets; there is no one to pray in the synagogue. But it can be used as a tourist center and museum, and performances on Jewish themes can be staged here.

The building of the Ivenets synagogue.

The chairman of the Ivenets village executive committee, Sergei Reut, emphasized in the conversation that the synagogue was transferred to the Jewish Religious Association free of charge.

But, I think, they passed it on because life forced it. It was necessary to change the roof, windows, frames, doors.

Synagogue wall.

The Jewish history of Ivenets, like other towns in the local region, is interesting and instructive. The founder of the Agudat Israel movement, Isaac ha Levi, considered himself to be here. He lived in Ivenets in his youth. The goal of the World Jewish religious movement of Orthodox Jews "Agudath Israel", united in a political party, is the desire to preserve the foundations of the Jewish religion and traditions, Jewish society on the basis of Halacha. This movement gained adherents mainly in the centers of the Ashkenazi diaspora in Eastern and Western Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.

Ivenets is located just 35 kilometers from Volozhin. This is one region.

Volozhin occupies a special place in Jewish history primarily due to its famous yeshiva “Em ha-Yeshivot” (translated from Hebrew this means “mother of yeshivas”). The name itself emphasizes the significance of the Volozhin Yeshiva. It was opened in 1803. During its heyday, more than 400 students from all over the Russian Empire studied here. The yeshiva is led by great sages, experts in Judaism Chaim Volozhiner, Yitzchok Volozhiner, Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Yosef Dov-Ber Soloveitchik, Refael Shapiro. And although the yeshiva was officially closed in 1896, as the Russian government demanded the introduction of the Russian language into the teaching curriculum, the study of secular subjects and limiting study to 10 hours, in fact it existed until 1939. The Volozhin yeshiva became the prototype of most Lithuanian yeshivas in the world.

Old Jewish houses
on the former Market Square
(Freedom Square).

Of course, the Volozhin yeshiva and its students influenced the Jewish life of all the surrounding towns, and, of course, the life of the Ivenets community. They were considered the most eligible bachelors, and all rich Jews wanted to have them as their sons-in-law. They were invited to Shabbat and holidays. Parents dreamed that their sons would go to study at the Volozhin Yeshiva.

At the end of the 19th century, Ivenets had about four hundred houses, two churches, two synagogues, two taverns, thirty-five shops and seventeen pottery workshops. There were a brewery and starch factory, a mill, a post and telegraph office, a hospital, and a pharmacy. Local residents could receive education in public schools and two cheders.

In 1904, the first photography studio appeared in the town of Ivenets, the right to open which was given to Brian Damskaya, a native of Ivenets, deaf and mute from birth. A few years later, she received permission to photograph not only in Ivenets, but throughout the entire Minsk province.

In 1915, Nevakh-Girsha Khaimov Poznyak opened road transport between the town of Rakov and the town of Ivenets. The Humbert system car carried passengers to Ivenets on special orders.

Since ancient times, Ivenets was famous for its pottery production. Around the settlement there are deposits of high-quality clay, which, when fired, acquired a golden-ocher color. The secrets of craftsmanship were passed down from generation to generation, and entire dynasties of hereditary potters were formed here. Ivenets ceramics were distinguished by a variety of forms and originality of painting. In addition to kitchen utensils, vases, candlesticks, toys, exquisite teapots, sugar bowls, oil dishes, and candy dishes were made here. They made the well-known Ivenets tiles - relief stove tiles with plant and heraldic images.

By the way, this craft, or art, has not been forgotten in Ivenets to this day. The pottery workshop operates at the Museum of Traditional Culture (this is the name now given to the former Museum of F.E. Dzerzhinsky). And I was there, as they say. I not only looked at the work of local potters, but even bought something from them. There is an artistic ceramics factory.

After the revolution, Iwieniec, as part of Poland, became the center of a commune (a commune is an administrative unit like the current village council). In 1939, units of the Red Army entered the town. Ivenets became a regional center, its market square was renamed Freedom Square, pottery workshops were united into an artel.

In 2012, several elderly Jews still lived in Ivenets. I talked with one of them, Joseph Kantorovich, and listened with interest to his story about pre-war Ivenets.

“I’m from here, from Volma,” Joseph Kantorovich told me with a noticeable Jewish accent. – Born here in 1925. I remember the pre-war times well.

“Tell me about your family,” I asked.

Ivenets. 1939

– Until 1939, we lived under Poland, our place was located almost on the very border, and the house stood two hundred meters from the border. The Poles didn't bother us. There was a synagogue, they were praying. I went to cheder. True, in the evenings it was necessary to curtain the windows on the Bolshevik side. Everything was cultural, although, of course, anything happened.

We lived well. We had a big house, our own store, a small bakery, and a horse. Everything was enough. And my grandfather was actually a rich man. His name was Zalman Kantorovich, and his father’s name was Eli Kantorovich. Father loved to talk. The new government immediately saw this. A Jewish security officer began to come to us. He had a long conversation with his father.”

Ivenets was located near the western border of the USSR and was occupied by German troops on June 25, 1941.

Joseph Kantorovich continued his story: “On the second day of the war, we prepared to leave to the east. In Volma, just as there were border guards under Poland, there were military personnel under the Soviets. Only the wire was removed from the place where the border was. I rolled that wire myself. So the Red Army soldiers came out with sabers and did not allow anyone from Volma to leave.

By June 25, a lot of people had gathered in Volma. People were noisy and begging. Then they decided to send my sister Musya to the head of the military unit.

She was then 22 years old, she worked as a school director, a fighting girl. The head of the military unit was a Jew. She came to him and said:

“The cows were slaughtered, the pigs were slaughtered, there was nothing left.” Let the people out.

At first he said: “No!” And then he turned around and left. The sister realized that he could not resolve it, but he felt sorry for the people, probably guessing what would happen to them. Musya returned to the people and said: “Let's go. They won't do anything to us."

When we crossed the old border, we heard only one shot after us.

And we went, we went, we went... We walked all the way to Bryansk... We were greeted differently. There were those who helped, and there were those who closed the wells and did not provide water.

– Which of yours remained in Volma?

“My father led 24 people to the east. He wanted the entire community to leave Volma, but some said that they were already old and could not go, others felt sorry for their property.

My grandmother and housekeeper remained in the house. When the Germans entered Volma, they kicked out the housekeeper and shot the grandmother. Our house was burned down.

My uncle lived in Ivenets - Pinya Zalmanovich Kantorovich. Before the war, he graduated from the University of Warsaw. He was a good doctor, a very competent person.

The Soviets shot down a German plane over Ivenets. The pilot jumped out by parachute. Was injured. He was admitted to the hospital. Things were not getting better. The Germans said that the doctors were not treating the pilot well. There were three doctors in Ivenets, all Jews. They were shot and my uncle was killed too. The Germans ordered all Jews to gather. Every tenth person was taken out and shot.”

From the very first weeks of the occupation, the Germans, in order to control the implementation of their orders and organize forced labor, forced the Jews of Ivenets to elect the Judenrat. On pain of death, Jews were ordered to sew six-pointed stars on their clothes.

Local police constantly beat and robbed Jews. They were forced to do dirty and hard work, used as slaves to clean streets, stables and other menial jobs.

What happened in Ivenets was not much different from what happened in other cities or towns. First, those who could potentially lead the resistance of the Jewish population were shot. Local collaborators pointed them out.

Monument to the victims
Holocaust in Ivenets.

On July 14, 1941, 14 Jewish men of young and middle age, representatives of the intelligentsia, SS men from Volozhin, with the help of local police and some of the local residents, were arrested and, under a false pretext, taken away and shot.

On September 5, 1941, the Sonderkommando arrived in Ivenets, with the participation of local police, and killed about 50 Jews.

On November 10, 1941, the Nazis herded the remaining Jews—mostly old men, women, and children—into a ghetto bounded by Shkolnaya and Mlynova streets and the Volma River.

On November 11, the Jews themselves were forced to build a fence that surrounded the ghetto on three sides, and on the fourth side the river became the natural border of the ghetto (this helped facilitate several escapes, especially in winter across the ice). The ghetto was fenced with barbed wire and guarded by German soldiers and policemen, who suppressed attempts by prisoners to contact the local population.

Inside the ghetto, 4-5 families were settled in each house, forced to live in extremely cramped conditions without sewerage and in the complete absence of medical care. The main food was potatoes, secretly exchanged for clothes and other valuables from the peasants. Jews were sent to forced labor every day. Despite these conditions, Jewish religious rituals continued to be performed in two synagogues located on the territory of the ghetto.

In April 1942, the Germans rounded up 120 of the most able-bodied remaining Jewish men. The specialist craftsmen were deported on foot to the Novogrudok ghetto, and the rest were sent as laborers to the Todt organization in the Palace. Along the way, many died from hunger and exhaustion, others were shot by guards.

On May 8-9, 1942, able-bodied Jews from Volma, Derevno, Kamenya, Nalibok, Rubezhevich and other villages and towns of Nalibokskaya Pushcha were also driven into the Ivenets ghetto.

On June 1, 1942, ghetto prisoners aged 15 to 55 were herded into a Polish barracks, beaten and, after being locked up all night, sent on foot to Lyubcha and then by train to Novogrudok. Those who fell from exhaustion on the road were shot.

On June 8, 1942, the Germans led about 40 Jews from the ghetto to the Red Church on September 17 Street, gave them shovels, and at the edge of the forest 500 meters from the church, in the Pishchugi tract not far from the northern outskirts of Ivenets on the road to Pershai, they ordered to dig a large and deep hole. On the same day, 2-3 cars with Lithuanian police arrived in Ivenets.

The next day, June 9, 1942, all the Jews who were in the Ivenets ghetto were driven into the forest in the morning and killed near a prepared ditch with machine guns - 600 old people and 200 children. The murder lasted from 4.00 to 11.00 am. Many victims were thrown into the pit while still alive and covered with lime. The police broke the heads of small children or simply threw them into a pit alive. The killings were carried out by the Lithuanian police.

After the occupation of Ivenets, the SD was commanded by SS Untersturmführer Waldemar Amelung (died 1954). In April 1942, SS Obersturmführer Franz Grunzfelder, who was killed on June 9, 1942, was appointed in his place.

Of the 2,150 people who died during the three years of occupation in Ivenets and its region, 2,000 were Jews.

In July 1944, the Soviet writer, publicist, and public figure Ilya Ehrenburg came to Ivenets. His stay in Ivenets was very short. This is the entry he left in his front-line diary.

“I was in a tank corps behind Ivenets. In the evening, a representative of the partisan detachment, a young girl, came to the general commanding the corps. It was dark, we were sitting under a tree in the yard. Her face was not visible. We had dinner. She said that the partisans had already prepared a bridge for the tanks and they could move to the West without delay. The partisans cleared the Nalibokskaya Pushcha near Ivenets from the Germans and the road was open for tanks. Based on the reprimand, I determined her nationality. They left her for dinner. The girl turned out to be a student at Minsk University and said that there were quite a lot of them (Jews), without giving numbers. She said that many Eastern Jews are fighting in the detachments of Western Belarus. The conversation was businesslike, the girl was in a hurry, and I could not ask her in detail about the fate of other Jews. This was the first gratifying meeting. Then, saying goodbye to her in the hut, I looked at her, I saw a pretty young Jewish girl with a revolver, fighting. And this was a great consolation and a great support.”

Old and new Ivenets.

After the liberation of Ivenets, the surviving Jews began to return from the army and partisan detachments. Few managed to escape to the east in 1941. They were looking forward to the liberation of their native places. It seemed to them that the old pre-war life would return. And as soon as Ivenets was liberated, they made every effort to return back. In 1959, about 70 Jews lived in Ivenets. There was an unspoken minyan; the old people gathered in a private house and prayed. Celebrated holidays. Before Passover they baked matzah.

Joseph Kantorovich recalls: “In 1944, after the liberation of Belarus, my father was called to Ivenets to restore the national economy. He first worked in the volost administration, then was the chairman of the general store. Brother Moses, after being seriously wounded, returned from the front to Ivenets. My sister came here. The family began to gather together, but they did not let me leave Magnitogorsk. I went to the director, and he: “No one has the right to let you leave such a plant.”

I returned to Ivenets only in 1954. I gave the money I earned in Magnitogorsk to my father, and we bought a house in Ivenets. This is how I lived. He was in charge of the warehouse at RaiPO...”

Unfortunately, today Joseph Kantorovich is no longer among us...

What remains of Jewish Ivenets. Memories... Several elderly Jews.

The old Jewish cemetery has been partially preserved. It is located on Oktyabrskaya Street. Part of the cemetery was demolished and built up with residential buildings in the 70s. When they dug the basements of houses, they found bones. Many matzeiva (tombstones) from the cemetery went into the foundations. It’s hard to even imagine how people live in these houses. True, those who still had a sense of self-preservation took the found matzeivas to the cemetery. Therefore, not every matzeiva has a burial place.

In the mid-2000s, young volunteers came to Ivenets, worked in the cemetery, and cleaned it up. About 300 matzeivas have survived.

At the Jewish cemetery.

The road goes through the cemetery to outbuildings and barns. I think the passage here should be closed to cars. It is necessary to put up an information board so that people know about Ivenets’ past.

A kilometer from Ivenets, at the site of the execution of Jews in 1965, a monument to the victims of fascism was erected. There is a sign on the road. It says that on June 9, 1942, Jews - residents of Ivenets and surrounding villages - were brutally killed by the Nazi invaders.

On the day of the 70th anniversary of this tragic date, a mourning meeting was held at the monument, in which local authorities, schoolchildren, residents of Ivenets, and representatives of Jewish organizations of Belarus took part. Kaddish was recited...

Ivenets is an urban village located in the Volozhin district of the Minsk region on the banks of the Volma River. The distance to Volozhin is 31 km, to Minsk - 68 km. Ivenets is connected by roads with Minsk, Dzerzhinsk, Volozhin, Stolbtsy, Novogrudok.

History of development - Ivenets

According to historical data, the settlement arose at the turn XIII-XIV centuries and was the private property of the Grand Duke Vytautas. Ivenets arose at the intersection of important communication routes - the Minsk-Stolbtsy-Novogrudok, Minsk-Vilnia and Minsk-Grodno roads. In the XIV century. Ivenets was given by Vytautas to his nephew Andrei Sologub. By the end of the century, the town became the property of the Davoins and became part of the Principality of Minsk.

Since the founding of the settlement, Ivenets was famous for its fairs, where they traded grain, flax, livestock, wood, iron and clay products. Active trade contributed to the development of a wide variety of crafts: pottery, blacksmithing, cooperage, weaving, wood carving. Local masons, plasterers and carpenters were famous far beyond the borders of Ivenets. In addition, the ceramic products of Ivenets potters became especially famous. The products of local craftsmen were even exported to the markets of Vilnius and Minsk.

Coat of arms Ivenetsa is a Varangian-shaped shield of red color on which is depicted a crown decorated with pearls. Under the crown there is a lion - a sign of the Sologub family, which once belonged to Ivenets.

IN 1793 Ivenets became part of the Russian Empire and became the center of the volost of the Minsk district. By the end of the 19th century, about 2,500 people lived in the town. During the First World War (1914-1918), Iwienets was captured by German troops, and during the Soviet-Polish War (1919-1920) it was occupied by the Polish army. As a result of the Riga Peace Treaty (1921), the village became part of Poland, where it remained until 1939, when Western Belarus became part of the BSSR. During the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 1944. Ivenets was occupied by the Nazi invaders.

Tourist potential - Ivenets

Ivenets has high cultural and tourist potential. The historical layout of the place has been preserved to this day, which represents the traditional development scheme of a medieval city: six streets run off in different directions from the shopping area located in the center of the town, three of which are roads to Rakov, Stolbtsy and Dzerzhinovo.

The key attraction of Ivenets is the complex of buildings Catholic Franciscan monastery(1702), located on the banks of the Volma River. The central element of the architectural ensemble is, built in 1749 in the “Vilna Baroque” style. A distinctive feature of the church is the presence on the façade of multi-stage, pyramidal towers pointing into the sky. In addition to its historical and cultural value, the monastery complex attracts the attention of numerous tourists and believers because the miraculous icon of the Mother of God is kept in the Church of St. Michael the Archangel.

At the entrance to Ivenets from the city of Rakov, all travelers are greeted by the second high-rise church of the village, built in 1905. Next to the church there is another small attraction - a Catholic chapel of the mid-19th century, an architectural monument of wooden architecture.
Another unique attraction of Ivenets is one of the three preserved in Belarus wooden synagogues with frescoes on the walls.

Of particular interest to tourists is the story telling about the life and culture of local residents. The museum's archival fund consists of rare photographs, documents, books and objects from the 19th - early 19th century. XX centuries In 1998, the museum was created Crafts Center, in which there are workshops “Weaving”, “Pottery”, “Forge”, a workshop for artistic wood processing, and a museum object “Tavern”. The Crafts Center hosts holiday-competition “Clay ringing”, animated performances, plein air “The Solar Warmth of a Tree”, candy festival "IVKON". In addition, upon request, a revived “Wedding” ritual is held.

Today Ivenets is a large settlement in which more than a dozen industrial enterprises, several cultural and educational facilities operate. Thanks to numerous historical and architectural monuments, the village attracts tourists from all over Belarus and guests from abroad.

The settlement of Ivenets arose at the turn of the 13th – 14th centuries. It was not a fortress, it did not lie on large military roads. The Encyclopedic Dictionary, published in 1904, says that Ivenets in the 14th century was given as a gift by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas to his nephew Andrei Vladimirovich Sologub, which indicates that the village was not small.

At the end of the 14th century, Ivenets was part of the Principality of Minsk and was the property of the Davoins, and in 1702 - the property of the Minsk steward Theodor Vankovich. He donated part of his land holdings to the Ivenets monks and in 1702 issued a fundush (monetary donation) for the construction of a monastery in the town. The construction of the monastery and church was led by monk Anzhelm Chakhovich. The monastery church (now called White) is a monument of Baroque architecture of the late 17th - early 18th centuries, distinguished by its harmonious compositions, clean lines, and rich decorative decoration.

Then Ivenets passed into the hands of the Sologubs, who built a new stone church (100 years later the temple burned down). After Sologubov - for a long time to the Plevako family.

The last owner of Ivenets for almost twenty years of the 20th century was Draguntsev.

In 1886, in Ivenets there were two Jewish schools, an almshouse, 17 pottery factories (naturally, primitive, rather even workshops), a mill, an inn, 35 shops (small private shops), most of which belonged to Jews, and there was a brewery, a distillery, and a lime factory nearby. factories.

In 1869, a public school was opened in Ivenets. 75 boys studied there. In 1902-1913, there was also a city four-year school for the children of wealthy nobles. In 1909, at the request of influential townspeople, an elementary school was opened, the program of which was designed for 4 classes of the gymnasium. They just didn’t study foreign languages ​​here. There was also a so-called Jewish school in Ivenets, where children of wealthy parents studied at private expense. The school was located in a private house and did not have a defined program.

There was a small hospital in Ivenets with a Red Cross outpatient clinic, one doctor, three paramedics and several nurses. Such medical staff could not provide people with the required assistance.

During the national liberation uprising under the leadership of the patriotic composer Michal Kleofas Oginsky, a detachment of rebels moved from Oshmyany through Vishnevo and Volozhin to Minsk and reached Ivenets. But then he learned that Minsk was very well fortified, and decided to retreat. Local peasants gave Oginsky carts for the convoy.

Ivenets was not spared the historical events of the Patriotic War of 1812. Here, the loyal sons of Russia bravely fought the enemy under the command of General Dorokhov, but under the pressure of superior enemy forces they were forced to retreat.

In 1905 - 1907, a church (red) was built in Ivenets on the Catholic cemetery, which has survived to this day.

In the 19th century, Ivenets was inhabited by Catholics (Poles), Jews and, in much smaller numbers, Belarusians and Russians.

During the imperialist war, Ivenets became a front-line village. The headquarters of the 10th Army was located here. At this time, by decision of the Moscow Party Committee, the outstanding figure of the Leninist Party, M.V. Frunze, came to the Western Front. Throughout the spring and part of the summer of 1916, he lived in Ivenets in the house of A.F. Pupko. The owner of the house himself helped Frunze in his revolutionary work.

According to the Treaty of Riga of 1921, Ivenets was part of Poland and was a border village. In 1921, a seven-year school with Polish as the language of instruction was opened in the town.

After the liberation of Western Belarus from Belopolska rule, a temporary administration was created in Ivenets, led by the communist Ryazhinsky, and a detachment of the Workers and Peasants Guard. The department quickly established a new order and organized the provision of essential goods to the population.

By decision of the 5th Extraordinary Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, which took place in November 1939, Belarus became part of the Soviet Republic. Enormous changes have taken place in Ivenets. A regional industrial plant, a pottery factory, a timber factory and other enterprises began to operate. A school, library, and hospital appeared.

In January 1940, the Ivenets district was created with the administrative center in Ivenets. A regional newspaper and a newspaper under the political department of MTS began to be published. On December 15, 1940, the district and village Soviets of Workers' Deputies were elected.

Literally a few days after Germany’s treacherous attack on the USSR, Ivenets found itself under Nazi occupation. In April 1943, the Ivenets partisan unit was formed. It was commanded by the first secretary of the Ivenets interdistrict committee of the Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Bolsheviks) Ya.A. Sidorok (Dubov). There were 4.5 thousand partisans in the formation. On June 18, 1943, the enemy garrison in Ivenets was defeated with the active participation of Kazimir Dzerzhinsky - the brother of F.E. Dzerzhinsky - and his wife Lucia.

Immediately after the liberation of Ivenets, the party organization mobilized workers for restoration work. The seven-year school was transformed into a secondary school, and already in 1947, nine graduates received a certificate of secondary education. In 1957, the school was awarded the title of F.E. Dzerzhinsky, and twelve years later a new school building with 960 student places was put into operation. A music school was opened in 1959. Since 1957, the village has been connected to the state power supply line.

The industry of Ivenets is developing. One of the largest enterprises can be called a confectionery factory; there is also a woodworking plant, an artistic ceramics and embroidery factory. On the northeastern outskirts of the village is the Ivenetsky breeding poultry farm.

Ivenets is a junction of highways that provide external connections to the urban village. It is connected by bus routes to Minsk, Molodechno, Stolbtsy, Volozhin and many villages.

One of the most important places in the cultural life of the village is occupied by the F.E. Dzerzhinsky Museum, which was opened on September 11, 1957. It contains photographs, many things, photocopies of documents, works of art, graphics and sculptures that tell about the glorious deeds, life and revolutionary activities of V.I. Lenin’s comrade-in-arms (2 Muzeynaya St.; tel. 8-0177253541).

In the urban village of Ivenets there is a hotel (Museynaya St., 8; tel. 8-0177253534), a restaurant (Svobody Square; tel. 8-0177253437), a cultural center (Pionerskaya St., 5; tel. 8-0177253307). At the Ivenets State Pedagogical Theater, the following were created: the exemplary puppet theater “Vandrouka”, the folk propaganda and choreographic group “Zhuravinka”.

Monuments of architecture, history and culture:

Church of St. Michael and Franciscan monastery. Built in 1702 - 1705. made of brick under the guidance of local master A. Chakhovich. Monument of Baroque architecture.
Church of St. Alexis. Built in 1905-1907 in the neo-Gothic style.
St. Euphrosyne Church in neo-Byzantine style. Built since 1997.
Monument to F.E. Dzerzhinsky, created in 1953 by the Belarusian sculptor, People's Artist of the BSSR Zair Azgur.