Subotniki

Subotniki or Subbotniki (Суботнікі; Суботники, Субботники) is an agrotown in Iwye District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Subotniki selsoviet.

History
Subotniki was a private town of the Radziwiłł family, administratively located in the Oszmiana County in the Vilnius Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Subotniki was administratively located in the Wołożyn County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of interwar Poland. According to the 1921 census, the population was 89.9% Polish and 10.1% Jewish.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union afterwards. It is the birthplace of Zianon Pazniak, one of the founders and first leader of the Belarusian Popular Front, the main opposition to the Communist Party in the late 1980s.