In the interwar period, the village was within Poland, in the Białystok Voivodeship, in Grodno County, in Aziory Commune.

On September 20, 1943, German military police smashed the VIII Strike Cadre Battalion of the Home Army commanded by Lieutenant Zbigniew Czarnocki pseudonym "Czarny" near the village - 32 partisans died, while 3 survived.

Earlier, it fought skirmishes on the crossing over the Niemen, near Wiercielishki and in the Gluche Bagno wilderness.

Cadet Bohdan Smolarski (born 1924) - son of Mieczysław - a writer (1888-1967), was posthumously awarded the Cross of Valour in 1966 by the then Minister of National Defense, Marshal of Poland Marian Spychalski.

It is maintained by members of the Society of Polish Artists from Grodno operating at the Union of Poles in Belarus.