Belik

Belik lies by the Belichek stream in the wooded countryside southeast of Pochinok. Its waters join the Stomyatka and ultimately the Dnieper system. Springs feed the small river, and the village occupies a landscape of fields, woods and headwater streams south of Smolensk. The district belonged to the Smolensk borderlands, whose villages experienced the changing rule and military campaigns of Lithuania, Moscow and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.