[3] Krupki was founded in 1067 and existed during both the medieval Kingdom of Poland and of the great Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Krupki was then absorbed into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after which, the district was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793.

[5] The old, wooden Bogoroditskaya Church in the nearby village of Hodovcy is a tourist site and of historic value.

[6] The town's population was 1,800 (mostly Jewish) people in 166 houses, according to an 1895 Russian Encyclopedia,[1] and 2,080 (largely non 'Hebrews') in 1926 according to a similar reference book of 1961.

[1] There is no apparent evidence that any of Russia's endemic famines or pre-Revolutionary bread riots had broken out in Krupki town or its immediate environs.

The town was briefly taken by a small unit of Prussian troops during the later part of the First World War.

I won’t forget this spectacle in a hurry...[11]Some of the Germans and Austrians involved in the incident were also injured during the panic.

Very few, if any, of the local Belarusians, Roma/Gypsies or Poles supported the anti-Semitic attack and a few even actively opposed Nazi rule in their town altogether.

[7][12] Belarus was the hardest hit Soviet Republic in the war and remained in Nazi hands until it was liberated in 1944 during the Minsk Offensive.

Junior Sergeant/Rifleman Vladimir Olegovich Kriptoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and Order of the Red Star (both posthumously) after being killed by grenade explosion during the 1988 Battle for Hill 3234 whilst serving in the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

It consists of both woodworking, flax, forestry, the farming of fruit and vegetables and food processing.