Luninets, Belarus was first mentioned in 1540 as a village Lulilets owned by Davoina of Polotsk. In 1622 the village was given as a gift to the Djatlovichi monastery. From 1793 Luninets was a part of Pinsk Povet. The development of Luninets, Belarus began with the coming of the Polesje railway.
From 1921 to 1939 Luninets was annexed to Poland as a town. In 1939 it was reunited with the Soviet Republic and has been a district center since 1940. From June 1941 to July 1944 Kobrin was occupied by German fascist invaders who massacred 16.6 thousand people in the town and the district.
Most of the Jewish residents of Luninets, Belarus were traders and craftsmen. However, they went through a rough phase in the 1930s when the Polish government issued a boycott against all Jewish. In 1939, Luninets was captured by the Soviet Union.
Jewish schools were shut down, and shops and banks were looted. In June 1941, the Germans took control of Luninets, and although many residents tried to flee into the Soviet Union, it was futile for most of the people and they were handed over to the Nazis. In August 1941 almost all of the men were murdered, and the women and children were shifted to a ghetto. Later, all the ghetto's remaining residents were killed and buried by the Nazis.
Luninets in Belarus is situated 240 kilometers away from Brest and is subject to the regional authorities. Luninets, Belarus boasts of a population of 25 thousand people. Luninets, Belarus is a railway junction of the routes leading to Brest, Gomel, Baranovichi, Sarny. The heavy industry in Luninets, Belarus is represented by an electric machine building-plant, a repair plant, timber processing enterprises a dairy factory and a locomotive depot.
There are 40 recreation centers and clubs, 7 music schools ,47 libraries and an ethnography museum in the Luninets district. The people's orchestra of folk instruments at the Luninets children's music school is famous even outside the district.
There are 8 monuments of architecture in the territory of Luninets, Belarus and among them there is Luninets Cross Exaltation Church, as well as 81 historic monuments, and 6 archaeological monuments. The crypt-tomb of Felicia Dvorakovskaya dated 1833 was awarded the status of historical and cultural value.
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