Categories: Confessional and international relations, Mikalai Karostsik

And where was the border here?

The border ran approximately along the villages. If you look at that side, you see. Kamaisk, Osava. Now they are Selishchy, Varany. And now there are Vardamichy, Salanoye, Milcha. You see. First goes Milcha, then Dalginava. In front of Village Selishchy there was a bridge across this … the river. There was river Ponya flowing here. There was a sw...swamp in the bottomland, river Ponya was flowing. It began ... from Krypuli. Well then, and the border was very strict. It was impossible to cross it. Before 1922 it was allowed to go visiting relatives, and then it was locked. Well. You see what the border was at that time.

Аnd the frontier post was Polish?

Yeah. The frontier post was ... it belonged to the Polish. There was a frontier post in Kamaisk. Telephone post, they had telephone connection there. Besides, there was a frontier post in Gnyazdzilava. There was a Polish frontier post in Varany. There was also a frontier post both in Vardamichy and Milcha. And further away there was Dalginava already. And Sakavichy. And it ran further away to the East. You see.

Researcher: Олег Коляго, старший преподаватель, ГрГУ имени Я. Купалы