Novo Leski is a village in Hadzhidimovo Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria.

[1] The village is situated in the foothills of the Pirin Mountain in the valley of the Mesta River on the secondary international road between Gotse Delchev and Drama, Greece, 6 km west north-west of the town of Hadzhidimovo.

In the "Ethnography of the Provinces of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki", published in Istanbul in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the male population from 1873, Lyaski is listed as a village with 75 households and 260 Bulgarian inhabitants.

[2] In 1889, Stefan Verkovic ("Topographical and Ethnographic Essay of Macedonia") noted Lyaski as a village with 72 Bulgarian houses.

[3] The Church of St. George in the village dates back to the beginning of the 19th century.

Ethnography and Statistics") at the end of the 19th century Lyaski had a population of 695, all Bulgarian Christians.

[6] At the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912, thirteen people from Lyaski volunteered for the Macedonian-Edirne voluntary militia .

Its situation on an international road is favourable for roadside businesses like stores and cafes.