Dawhinava (Belarusian: Даўгінава, romanized: Daŭhinava; Russian: Долгиново, romanized: Dolginovo; Lithuanian: Dauginava; Polish: Dołhinów; Yiddish: דאלהינאוו) is an agrotown in Vileyka District, Minsk Region, Belarus.
[2] King Stephen Bathory passed through the town before recapturing Polotsk.
[3] During the Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667, a battle between Lithuanian and Russian forces was fought in the town's vicinity in 1661.
[4] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II 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.
There were 1,194 Jews in Dawhinava in 1847, 2,559 in 1897 out of a total population of 3,551 (based on statistical analysis of the 1897 All Russia Census, for the Vileyka district town of Dolginovo), 2,259 in 1900 and 1,747 in 1921 (out of 2,671).