
In 1921 David - Gorodok went to Poland. Since 1939 the town with the population of around 11 thousand inhabitants had become part of Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and from January 15, 1940 it had had the status of a centre town of the David-)k district of the Pinsk oblast. From January 8, 1954 centre of the district in the Brest oblast and from January 19, 1961 it has been incorporated into the Stolin district. There survived the Georgievskaya wooden church built at the end of the XVII century — beginning of the XVIII century. The interior of the church has a wooden carved iconostasis. This sort of carving is called "The Belarusian carving". It was used to decorate not only interiors of numerous churches, but of the Palaces, too. In the second half of the XVII century several dozens of Belarusian craftsmen-carvers worked in Moscow alone, including the Armory Museum of the Moscow Kremlin.
Guide to towns and district centers of Republic of Belarus. A.V. Varivonchik [etc.]