Vyada

Vyada lay in the forest and wetland country south of Slonim, near the old Vyhanashchanskaye Lake. The village is recorded from the fifteenth century and gave its name to a district of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. By 1508 the district of Vyada was among the possessions administered for a member of the grand ducal family. Its place among the scattered settlements of this waterlogged region recalls a countryside where woodland and lakes formed the setting for local lordship, rather than the walled towns of the Neman valley.