The Vileyka city in Belarus.

Holy Cross Exaltation Church  Vileyka city in Belarus.

It is believed that Vileyka appeared about five centuries ago, but archaeological finds indicate that people founded a permanent settlement near the current borders of Vileyka much earlier than this date. 

The first people in the territory of the modern Vileika region appeared around the 9th millennium BC. Near the villages of Sosenka and Ostashkovo, sites of ancient people and flint tools were found, according to which the age of the sites found dates back to 7-5 millennia BC. 

Later archaeological sites dating back to the Neolithic (4-2 millennium BC) were discovered near the villages of Kameno, Kastika, Kurenets, Naroch, Rabun and some others.

The oldest of these finds belong to the tribes of the Kundo culture, who lived in the northern part of the modern territory of the district until about 4 millennia BC, after which the tribes of the Narva culture came to their place. 

However, already in the 3rd millennium BC they were replaced by tribes of comb-and-hole ceramics culture. Later, in the Bronze Age (3-2 millennium BC - VII century BC), our lands were inhabited by tribes of cord ceramics culture, and in the early Iron Age - by the Baltic tribes of bar-ceramics culture. A lot of archaeological finds in the territory of the Vileika region relating to the Bronze and Iron Ages were made, including near Vileika itself.

Around the middle of the 1st millennium AD, it was time for a bancer culture. Numerous funerary monuments have been preserved since the time of the Krivichy-Dregovichsky Slavs: on the territory of the Vileika region there are more than 20 burial mounds of the 9th-12th centuries. n e.