Pogorzelec [pɔɡɔˈʐɛlɛt͡s], is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Giby, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the borders with Belarus and Lithuania.

In 1982 it was transported to Giby at present it is the Roman Catholic parish church of St Anna.

[7] According to the First General Population Census, conducted in 1921, the village of Pogorzelec had 461 inhabitants, living in 87 houses.

The vast majority of Pogorzelec residents, 379 in number, declared an Old Believer religion.

The religious division of the inhabitants of the village almost completely coincided with their national-ethnic structure, as 375 persons declared Russian nationality and the remaining 86 persons reported Polish national identity.