Zhaludok

Zhaludok is an urban-type settlement in Shchuchyn District, Grodno Region, in western Belarus. As of 2025, it has a population of 947.

History

In the interwar period, Żołudek was the seat of a gmina in the Lida County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of Poland. According to the 1921 census, the town with the adjacent manor farm had a population of 1,794, of which 68.7% declared Polish nationality, 30.0% declared Jewish nationality and 1.3% declared Belarusian nationality.
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 at the beginning of World War II, it was first occupied by the Soviet Union, then by Nazi Germany from 1941, and by the Soviets again from 1944, and eventually annexed from Poland.

Demographics

In 2024, it had a population of 959.
Distribution of the population by ethnicity according to the 2009 Belarusian census: