[4] In 1772, during the First Partition of Poland, Baran was transferred to Russia and became a selo, the center of Baranskaya Volost of Orshansky Uyezd within Mogilev Governorate.

From 1924, Baran was part of Orsha District, which belonged to Vitebsk Okrug of the Byelorussian SSR within the Soviet Union.

During World War II, Baran was occupied by German troops from 16 July 1941 and it remained under military occupation until February 1944.

[2] The Jewish population was murdered on 8 July 1942, after spending seven months performing various forms of hard labor and living in a ghetto which consisted of two houses.

[2] A witness to a mass shooting of the Jews of Baran stated: "The perpetrators were put together in a special unit of 6 persons.