[citation needed] Another source from approximately 1880 reports a total of 1,516 inhabitants (978 Jews) with 313 houses, two Russian Orthodox churches, and two Jewish synagogues.

[7] In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lyubavichi was the largest market within the Mogilev Governorate, with annual sales of more than 1.5 million rubles.

[10] The village lends its name to the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism, where its leadership established a court and was the seat of four generations of Chabad Rebbes between 1813 and 1915.

The fifth Rebbe, Sholom Dovber Schneersohn (1860–1920), established the Yeshivah Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in the village in the summer of 1897.

[13] The Chabad movement opened an information center in the village in 2008 called Hatzer Raboteinu Nesieinu Belubavitch.