Astrina

Astryna, also known as Ostryna, is an old settlement in the lands east of Grodno. It first appears in the Lithuanian records in 1450. In 1641 Władysław IV granted the town Magdeburg rights and a coat of arms, giving its inhabitants a recognised framework for local government. In the eighteenth century, the partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth brought Astryna into the Russian Empire. Its history belongs to the small towns that connected the estates and communities of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.