Peski

Peski is an agro-town, the center of the Peskovsky Village Council of the Mosty district of the Grodno region of the Republic of Belarus. Located 9 km south-east frin Mosty, in which there is the nearest railway station to the Peski. Peski stand at the intersection of the Mosty - Zelva and Volkovysk - Shchuchin highways. The river Zelvianka flows through the village.

Peski are first mentioned in the XVIth century, they were part of the Volkovysk district of the Novogrudok voivodship.
In the XVII century the monastery was owned by Sapega, who in 1682 built the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
As a result of the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795), Peski became part of the Russian Empire, in the Volkovysk district of the Grodno province.
The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas was built in 1870.
According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921) Peski became part of the interwar Polish Republic, where they belonged to the Volkovysk povet of the Belostok voivodship.
In 1939, the Sands entered the BSSR, where they became the center of the village council.
During the Second World War from June 1941 to July 13, 1944 Peski were under German occupation, a ghetto was organized here.

Church of Our Lady Ruzhencovoy.
Church of St. Nicholas.
Jewish and catholic cemeteries.
Monument to the Jews - victims of the Holocaust.