Ivyanyets or Ivenets (Belarusian: Iвянец, romanized: Ivianiec,[a] IPA: [ivʲaˈnʲets]; Russian: Ивенец; Lithuanian: Ivenčius; Polish: Iwieniec) is an urban-type settlement in Valozhyn District, Minsk Region, Belarus.

Ivyanyets is located in a hilly forested area on the Volma River, and its origins can be traced to the end of the 15th century in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Originally known as Givenech, presumably derived from Lithuanian gyventi – "to live", it was founded in 1444 as a privately owned settlement of the Sologub family, and by 1522 it was listed as a town within Minsk County of the Vilnius Voivodeship.

At the beginning of the 18th century Ivyanyets County was formed, with its administrative center located in the town, and in 1702 a Franciscan monastery was built by Theodore Vankovich.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Ivyanyets featured numerous hospitals and clinics, and in 1915 years around the St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk Orthodox church was built next to the fairgrounds.

[4] In 1934, the electrification of Ivyanyets began when individuals from the town founded a power plant on the Volma River, on the land of a former Sologub family property.

From 26 June 1941 until 6 July 1944, Ivyanyets was occupied by Nazi Germany and administered as a part of the Generalbezirk Weißruthenien of Reichskommissariat Ostland.

[7] On 19 June, the Polish Partisan Unit from the AK Stołpce District captured the settlement and destroyed the local German garrison.