A unique property for sale! Only under the Tourist complex on the basis of the former Yasudovo Folvark. To create a place with a “tourist atmosphere”, which is recognized by UNESCO, it is proposed to create a cultural, folklore, ethnographic center – Skansen, its working name – an open-air museum “From Yatvyags to Slavs”, which would be a good starting point for attracting tourists. It is proposed to simultaneously recreate the Yatvyazha settlement near the former Yasudovo Folvark in the Kaptsy tract, where a hundred years ago archaeologist Stanislav Krukovsky excavated 15 stone burial grounds of Yatvyags. The tribe of the Western Balts, called Yatvyags, from the X century settled in the basin of the Black Gancha River. On the territories adjacent to the canal, the foundations of their fortresses and settlements have been preserved - on the rivers Maryha and Black Gancha, the villages of Zarechanka (Queen Bona Mountain), Ratichi, Bala Solnaya, Kukoli, Yatvez, Sopotskin, Perstun, Kodevtsi. By the way, the name of the latter comes from the name of Prince Heinrich Kody.
Archaeological excavations of cultural layers are planned in the summer of 2026!
On the land there is a former building of a water mill (in the style of half-timbered) surrounded by a forest and a cascade of lakes. The area of the site is almost 45 acres, it is possible to connect to electricity. The building area is 331 sq.m., the building volume is 1550 m3, the building area is 218 m2, physical wear is 70%. The former building of the water mill dates back to the XIX century (more accurate information has not been preserved). Wall material: brick, buttercrete.
At the mill, a stream flows, which flows into the Augustow Canal, and starts at the lower lake, the lower lake is connected through a stream with the upper lake, which is located near the Kostel. The Church of the Ascension of the Virgin Mary of the late XVIII century, is the main highlight of architecture.
Sopotskin is the gateway to the famous August Canal. At the beginning of the XIX century, this man-made waterway connected the Neman with the Vistula. Today such can be seen only in Holland, England or Sweden. The canal once predetermined the development of the town. At the peak of construction, about ten thousand people worked here. In the district there were breweries, potteries, windmills and so on.
The whole district of Sopotskin is a huge open-air museum. What are only the forts of the Grodno fortress? In its scale and richness of history, it is not inferior to Brest. The citadel of the Northern War, the power of the forts of the fortress so impressed Charles XII that he did not dare to storm.
Not far from the town there is a palace and park complex "Svyatsk". This is the residence of the nobility of the Volovich family, built in 1799 by the Italian architect Giuseppe Sacco in the image and likeness of Versailles. It is also the oldest Jewish cemetery in Belarus. Tourists from all over the world go to see the graves of the XIII century.
The place received an unusual name by the name of the nobleman, to whom the Polish king in the XVI century gave these lands. The estate of Nikolai Sopotko locally dubbed Sopotsky yard. A unique object in a historic town near Grodno 17 km by car.
