Kholmyech

Kholmyech lies near the Dnieper in the lowlands southeast of Rechytsa. Burial mounds attest to settlement in the surrounding country in the eleventh century. Written records describe the place in the sixteenth century as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; by 1583 it was a privately owned town on the road between Babruysk and Chernihiv. A ferry crossing linked it to the far bank of the Dnieper.