Svietlahorsk

On the Berezina stood the settlement of Shatilki, associated with an estate called Shatilin Island. A grant of 1560 placed the property beside the river and the road towards Horval, in the lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Its owners included members of the Shatila and Mankevich families. The estate and village belonged to the countryside of Rechytsa county, where the Berezina offered a route through the forests and wetlands towards the Dnieper. After the partitions of the Commonwealth the settlement came under Russian rule.