Stowbtsy (Belarusian: Стоўбцы, romanized: Stoŭbcy,[a] IPA: [ˈstowpt͡sɨ]) or Stolbtsy (Russian: Столбцы, IPA: [stɐlˈptsɨ]; Polish: Stołpce; Yiddish: סטויבץ, romanized: Steibtz; Lithuanian: Stolpcai) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus.

In August 1924, while Stowbtsy was part of the Second Polish Republic, the town was the site of a Soviet-Polish border incident in which a company of Soviet raiders attacked its police station and government building in order to free two imprisoned communist activists (see Soviet raid on Stołpce).

[4] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the municipality was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Germany until 1944.

In June 1941, there were more than 3,000 Jews living in the town, including several hundred refugees from the German occupied parts of Poland.

Some of the Jews who fled the ghetto survived by joining the Bielski partisans in the nearby Naliboki Forest.