Significant part of the district is occupied by the Zwierznicki National Forest which was used for several centuries as undeveloped territories adjustcent to the Branicki Palace.

In the second half of the 19th century, the Russians built a road to Baranowicze, using part of the former Slonim route, today's Mickiewicza Street.

During the 19th century fields and meadows were urbanized over several decades, sold off, divided or consolidated and transformed either into plots designated for residential development or for factories.

Among the notable buildings that have survived are wooden villa at 7 Pod Krzywą Street,[5] built in 1934 in the functionalist style, which housed the first Białystok radio station just after the war.

According to witness accounts, as well as intelligence documents of underground independence organizations, this area was used for individual burials of victims of communist crimes, and perhaps also for executions.