Luchin

Luchin stands on the western bank of the Dnieper, south of Rahachow. Its river landing appears in a charter of 1480, when Casimir IV exempted a Minsk merchant from duties at several places along the Dnieper, including Luchin. In 1548 Queen Bona Sforza wrote to the governor of Rahachow concerning complaints by the villagers. A church of St Nicholas is recorded in connection with the settlement in 1593. After the Second Partition in 1793, Luchin passed from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Russian Empire.