Lelchytsy

Lyelchytsy (also spelled Lelchytsy) is an urban-type settlement on the Ubort River in southern Homielskaja voblasć, about 251 km southwest of Gomel, and the administrative center of Lyelchytsy District. Its population is a little over 12,000 as of the mid-2020s. The district, formally established in 1924, sits within the Polesian lowlands, an area of extensive forest and wetland historically associated with mushroom and berry foraging. The town suffered heavily during the Second World War: German forces occupied it from late August 1941, and local Jewish residents were killed in mass executions carried out by German gendarmes and local auxiliary police in 1941–42.

• Lyelchytsy District Museum of Local Lore — Opened in 1990 at Krasnoarmeyskaya Street 1, with halls covering archaeology, ethnography, nature, and the Second World War, and more than 3,500 exhibits
• Holy Trinity Church — A late-19th-century church in the town
• Pokrovskaya (Protection) Church, Pribolovichi — The district's best-known historic monument, dating to the late 18th century, in a village outside town
• Forest trails — Marked paths through the surrounding Polesian woodland, popular for mushroom and berry foraging in season

• Mazyr — Larger industrial city to the north
• Turaw — Historic early-medieval town to the west
• Pripyatsky National Park — Wetland reserve to the south