Khoiniki

Khoiniki belonged to the wooded country of Polesia. A privilege issued by King and Grand Duke Alexander on 3 June 1504 named Khoiniki together with Ostroglyady in a grant to Semyon Fyodorovich Polozovich for military service. The settlement lay within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's Kyiv lands and later within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Its ownership passed through several noble families, including the Kharlinskys, Shuiskys and Prozors.

By the last third of the seventeenth century, Khoiniki was described as a small town and the centre of an estate district. A wooden castle occupied the floodplain of the Kvesya River during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Noble ownership, the castle and the surrounding dependent settlements gave the locality its place in Polesia's landed society. The second partition of the Commonwealth in 1793 brought Khoiniki into the Russian Empire. That change transferred sovereignty over an existing estate town whose earlier history was recorded through grants, family ownership and the river-side stronghold.