Agrotown in Grodno Region, Belarus
Muravanaya Ashmyanka (; ; ; ) is an agrotown in Ashmyany District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Muravanaya Ashmyanka selsoviet. It is located located northwest from Ashmyany and from the railway station Ashmyany. In 1999, there were 338 villagers and 134 dwellings. In 2009, it received the status of agrotown. As of 2015, it has a population of 415.
The village is the administrative center of the local rural council and collective farm, has a hospital and a high school. There still remains the ruined printing house, which was owned in beginning of the 17th century by Krzysztof Mikołaj Dorohostajski, and where Woiciech Salinarius's "Censura" was printed in 1615 (the brick building completed possibly in 1590, converted to the palace residence in the 19th century). There is also a Catholic church of Virgin Mary (wooden structure with a belltower, example of Baroque and Classicism and of folk wooden architecture; built in the end of the 18th — beginning of the 19th century, renewed in 1841 and 1874). During World War II (around May 1944) the village was the site of a battle between Polish resistance and Lithuanian auxiliary Local Lithuanian Detachment.
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