Subotniki

{{Short description|Agrotown in Grodno Region, Belarus}}

{{other uses|Subbotnik (disambiguation)}}

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|name = Subotniki

|native_name = {{native name|be|Суботнікі}}
{{native name|ru|Суботники}}

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|subdivision_name1 = Grodno Region

|subdivision_type2 = District

|subdivision_name2 =Iwye District

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Subotniki or Subbotniki ({{langx|be|Суботнікі}}; {{langx|ru|Суботники, Субботники}}) is an agrotown in Iwye District, Grodno Region, Belarus.{{cite web |title=Сельсоветы |url=https://ivje.gov.by/ru/selispolkomy-ru/ |website=Ивьевский районный исполнительный комитет |language=ru-RU |date=3 February 2017}} It serves as the administrative center of Subotniki selsoviet.{{cite book |last1=Gaponenko |first1=Irina Olegovna |title=Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць |date=2004 |location=Minsk |publisher=Тэхналогія |page=362 |isbn=985-458-098-9}}

History

{{Historical populations|align=left|1882|523|1921|542

|source={{cite book|author= |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI|year=1890|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=522}}}}

Subotniki was a private town of the Radziwiłł family,{{cite book|author= |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XV. Część II|year=1902|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=629}} administratively located in the Oszmiana County in the Vilnius Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

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.{{cite book|author=|title=Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom VII. Część I|year=1923|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|page=92}}

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.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

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