It was granted town rights in 1546 by Queen consort of Poland Bona Sforza, confirmed by King Stephen Bathory in 1580.

[2] It was a royal town of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, administratively located in the Trakai Voivodeship[3] in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In 1941, During the German occupation, the active organizer of the underground cells in the commune was Władysław Szupicki, the post manager in Sokółka.

During the retreat, the Germans looked for hills and places convenient to stop the advancing Soviets and took people from nearby villages to dig trenches.

After the incorporation into the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, a group of 200 people fled to Poland.