Survey of the patrimony of Astravjets District (Mali, Filipany, Varnjany, Varona, Hjervjaty, Rymdzjuny, Hiry) and Smarhon’ District (Dehisi, Ivashkautsy, Hautsy, Navaspask, Kreva, Milejkava) 2016.
Фотавандроўка па спадчыне Астравецкага (Малі, Філіпаны, Варняны, Варона, Гервяты, Рымдзюны, Гіры) і Смаргоньскага (Дэгісі, Івашкаўцы, Гаўцы, Наваспаск, Крэва, Мілэйкава) раёнаў 2016 г.
Homestead on the outskirts of Rymdzjuny.
Parts of Western Belarus remain dotted with homesteads (khutar – хутар). Homesteads were created during the land reform of 1923-26 while these lands were part of the interwar Polish Republic. Remarkably many of these homesteads have survived the continuing oppressive legacy of Soviet collectivization, under which the occupying Soviet authorities forced smallholders into collective farms.
A khutar embodies the common Belarusian’s yearning to be self-sufficient and left alone to work his own land, no matter how small his holding is.
Хутар пад в. Рымдзюны.
