[1] It is administratively part of Adelsk selsoviet and located close to the border with Poland.

Between 1940 and 1959, the village served as the administrative center of Bruzgi rural council (selsoviet).

[3] In 2021, refugees, primarily Iraqi, entered the vicinity of Bruzgi, intending to depart from there to cross the Polish Border[4] at Kuźnica.

[5] In response, the Polish government declared a state of emergency, stationing over 12,000 troops at the border.

Politicians from Poland and the European Union accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of using the migrants as a form of "hybrid warfare" to destabilize Poland and other EU member countries.