Lipsk was granted town rights in 1580 by King Stephen Báthory by virtue of a privilege issued in nearby Grodno.

As part of anti-Polish repressions after the January Uprising, Lipsk was deprived of town rights by the Russian administration in 1869.

[4] During World War II it was occupied by the Soviet Union from September 1939 to June 1941.

In 1941, the Germans deported 99 local Jews to the ghettos in Augustów and Grodno, from where they were later transported to the Treblinka extermination camp.

[5] On July 13, 1943, the Germans murdered 50 Poles from Lipsk in nearby Naumowicze.