Navayelnya

Navayelnya Наваельня (Belarusian) Новоельня (Russian)
Urban-type settlement
53°27′42″N 25°35′22″E / 53.46167°N 25.58944°E / 53.46167; 25.58944
Country	Belarus
Region	Grodno Region
District	Dzyatlava District
Population  (2023)[1]
• Total	2,259
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)

Navayelnya (Belarusian: Наваельня, romanized: Navajeĺnia; Russian: Новоельня, romanized: Novoyelnya) is an urban-type settlement in Dzyatlava District, Grodno Region, Belarus.^[2] As of 2023, it has a population of 2,259.^[1]

It was first mentioned in the 16th century as the village of Yelnya in the Novogrudok povet of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In 1733, Count Antoni Tyzenhauz, a political and public figure of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, one of the most talented financiers of his time, was born here.

In the 17th century, a manor was built here (not preserved).

As a result of the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795), Yelnya became part of the Russian Empire, in the Novogrudsky Uyezd. In 1842 the settlement received the status of a town.

With the opening of traffic on the Vilno-Luninets railway section in 1884, a railway station was built in Novelnya.

According to the Treaty of Riga (1921), Novelnya became part of the interwar Polish Republic, where it became part of the Slonim Povet of the Nowogródek Voivodeship.

In 1939, as part of the BSSR, since 1945 - an urban settlement, until 1954 it was the center of the Dyatlovsky district. During 1962-1965 it was part of the Novogrudok District. During the Great Patriotic War, from June 1941 to July 1944, it was under German occupation.^[3]

A mass grave was discovered during the construction of a warehouse for a flax export base, and on June 25, 2005, a monument to the victims of the Jewish genocide was erected at this site.