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During the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 the town was captured by the Polish Army in the so-called Mozyr Operation.

Polish 9th Infantry Division captured the city in a swift and daring manoeuvre that earned its commanding officer, Col. Władysław Sikorski ( later Prime Minister of Poland ) a promotion to general.

In the course of the war the town was briefly recaptured by the Bolshevists, but in the aftermath of the battle of Warsaw it was again recaptured by the Polish forces of Gen. Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, who proclaimed a short-lived Belarusian People's Republic on November 12, 1920.

However, in the Riga Peace Treaty it was assigned to Bolshevist Russia and became part of the Belarussian SSR.

Since 1938 the town was a seat of Polesie region, however in 1954 it lost that status and was administratively attached to the region of Homyel.