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The history of ancient Luninets land goes back to distant times...

Archaeological monuments (burial mounds, sites of primitive tribes) help to reconstruct it – witnesses of past eras, often the only things that remain from the times before writing existed, when other evidence simply did not survive. Yet almost every corner of our district hides monuments of the past. They preserve information about the life of our ancestors: what they did, how they earned their daily bread. The official founding date of Luninets is 1449. It took more than five centuries to grow from the village of Maly Lulin to the city of Luninets, a city with developed industry and infrastructure.

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This section uses photographs by Svyatoslav Yanochkin from his research “Luninets in Vilnius archives,” photographs from the personal archive of Leonid Lvovich Kolosov, from the archive of Alexander Zhuk, as well as from the book “Memory” (Luninets District), from the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv (Israel), and from the archive of the site’s author.