Asipovichy (Belarusian: Асiповiчы; Russian: Осиповичи, romanized: Osipovichi) is a town in Mogilev Region, Belarus.
A village existed on the site of the modern town during the 18th century, which in 1787 had seventeen dwellings as part of the Protasevichi folwark owned by Dominik Hieronim Radzivil in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
The Russian Empire 1897 census recorded 449 inhabitants in the village and 99 in the settlement that developed around the station; the region was part of the Bobruysky Uyezd.
[3] A railway sleeper plant was founded in 1900 and in the early 20th century the village turned into an urban settlement with a bakery, workshops for the manufacture and repair of sled wheels and agricultural implements.
The Asapovichy-Darahanava railway was extended to Uručča between 1905 and 1907, and the town turned into a rail junction from which more than a million poods of forestry products were shipped annually.
There were two schools, a steam mill was built in 1908, a tar factory founded in 1909, and communication was established with Minsk and Mogilev.
A locomotive depot opened in 1913 and the railway was extended to Slutsk in 1915 during World War I and converted to broad gauge.
After the October Revolution, a Red Guard detachment of 1,000 men was formed, which in January and February 1918 took part in the defeat of Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki's Polish troops.
Asapovichy received city status on 15 July 1935, and a secondary school, maternity hospital, and public bathhouse were built.
Soviet partisans were active in the region during the war, undertaking sabotage against the railway junction and burning down the creamery.
Soon after liberation, the town was rebuilt – the forestry enterprise, mill, creamery and the artels Red Chemist, Progress, and Social Work were restored, telephone and telegraph services resumed.
[3] The Yuzhny (South) military base is located on the southeastern outskirts of the town on ulitsa Rabochye-Krestyanskaya (street).