With the establishment of Soviet power in Western Belarus in September 1939 was founded Vertelishki village Council. It was a member of Grodno district of Vertelishki parish.
Square of the village Council is of 125.2 km. The Administrative center is the Vertelishki agricultural town which is located 12 km from Grodno. As of January 1, 2017, 3,235 people live in this settlement, there are 1,214 cash farms.
The village Council includes 31 villages with population of 5492 people, including adults-3385 people, pensioners-1444 people, children under the age of 15 years-663 people.
The basis of the agro-industrial complex of the village Council is agricultural production cooperative " Progress-Vertelishki " – the largest economy of the Republic of Belarus. The farm employs 961 people, including 858 people in agriculture.
In SPK "Progress-Vertelishki", 45 structural units of them:
5 production sites;
1 gardening team;
11 livestock farms and complexes (8 – of cattle, poultry farm, fur farm, horse farm).
More than 30 utility and service enterprises: preparation center, the enterprise for milk processing, poultry processing workshop, butcher shop, the enterprise is slaughter of cattle, flour mill, bakery, shop of primary processing of fur, lesieg, carpenter's artistic enterprise, etc.
As well as on the territory of the village Council are:
Peat production "Vertelishki" production management "Grodnoenergo", State institution of social service "psycho-neurological Murawinski Dom-internat for aged and disabled people", Republican unitary agricultural enterprise "Grodno breeding" land "Vertelishki" Grodno regional unitary enterprise "Skidelsky housing and communal economy". Communal services of settlements of the village Council are made by two services: the Grodno regional unitary enterprise "Skidelsky services" and the municipal unitary enterprise "Services of the Grodno region".
Trade service of the population of the village Council is carried out by 7 shops of cooperative trade, 2 shops of "Progress-Vertelishki" itself.
Household services to the population has Vertelishki complex place of acceptance unitary enterprise "the Grodno district plant consumer services". Transmission provides these types of services like clothing repair, dry cleaning and laundry service, photo services, repair of footwear, repair of household appliances, repair of clocks and furniture etc.
In the village Council there are 3 branches of communication, 2 branches of ASB "Belarusbank".
The education system consists of: the State educational institution, two preschool Public institutions of education – "Preschool child development Center AG.Vertelishki" and "Children's nursery".
There is a children's and youth sports school, where there are three departments of general physical training: basketball, swimming and equestrian sports.
The cultural service of the population carry Vertelishki Center of culture and leisure and rural House of culture, two libraries, and children's art school, where the training of children in two parts: the choreography and music.
At the houses of culture there are 3 folk groups: song and dance ensemble "Niva", vocal and instrumental ensemble" Ranitsa", folk theater" Matulina song", as well as an exemplary dance group "Galaktika-B".
Medical care to residents of the village Council has a clinic.
Necessary medicine residents acquire in Vertelishki pharmacy.
Currently on the territory of the village Council operates the Church of St. Andrzej, the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky, founded in 1843, a drop of the Immaculate Heart of the blessed Mary, built in 1993 and the Holy Annunciation Church, founded in 1743.
There are 8 public cemeteries, in the village of Zhytomyr there is a monument in honor of soldiers of villagers who died during the great Patriotic war and missing on the fronts, a memorial complex in the center of Vertelishki, where the ashes of 190 soldiers who died for the liberation of the territory of the village Council of the German-fascist invaders during the great Patriotic war.
Vertelishki SEL:
date of creation-1939
area-125.2 square kilometers
center-agricultural-town Vertelishki
human settlements-31
population-5492