Bocheikovo

Bocheikovo lies on the navigable Ulla, on the road between Vilnius and Vitebsk. It was a small town of Polotsk Voivodeship under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; a census of 1766 counted 75 Jews in its dependent community. Its position attracted the attention of Russian military planners. In 1819 General Karl Oppermann drew up a plan for a fortress here, with detached works surrounding the central defences, although the project was never carried out.