Krupki

Krupki lies where the Krupka stream meets the Bobr, on the road east from Minsk. It appears as a town on the 1613 map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in an inventory of 1653 under the names Krupka and Sangushkov. The settlement was the centre of an estate in the Orsha district. During the wars between Moscow and the Commonwealth in the 1650s, the Russian army used the town as a headquarters.