Ilya (Belarusian: Ілья, romanized: Iĺja; Russian: Илья; Polish: Ilia; Lithuanian: Ilija) is an agrotown in Vileyka District, Minsk Region, Belarus.

The first record of Ilya was in 1473, where it is mentioned as belonging to Bogdan Sakovich, governor of Braslaw for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

[3] According to the 1882 Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland, the town began as a manor of a Radziwiłł prince, and as early as 1634, there was both a Christian church and Jewish synagogue.

American actress Lisa Kudrow (best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay on the sitcom Friends) traces her family roots to Ilya, where her paternal grandmother, Gertrude "Grunia" Farbermann, had emigrated from.

Her paternal great-grandmother (Grunia's mother), Mera Mordechowicz (Мера Мордехович), however, stayed, and was among the citizens murdered.

In the episode, Kudrow goes to the market square, where the Jews of Ilya had been marched to a pit in the middle of the town.