Mindaugas Hill, Heritage hill in Navahrudak, Belarus.

Mindaugas Hill is a hill in Navahrudak bounded by Minskaya Street, 1 Maya Street and the pedestrian crossing linking them. Its slopes hold the remains of a town Christian cemetery used from about the end of the 17th century until the early 1920s; some gravestones survive, the oldest dated 1820. A metal sculpture of Mindaugas, about 2.5 m tall, stands beside the hill.

The hill's name comes from a tradition that Mindaugas, founder of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was buried here in the 13th century after renouncing Catholicism and being buried by pagan rite; the story appears in the first monograph on Navahrudak, published in Latin in Lviv in 1795. Another version links the name to his coronation in 1253, when he received the crown and title of King of Lithuania from Pope Innocent IV. From the late 17th century the hill held the town's Christian cemetery, used until the early 1920s; the oldest surviving gravestone dates from 1820.

The name comes from legends recorded in the first monograph on Navahrudak, printed in Latin in Lviv in 1795. The poet Adam Mickiewicz, born in the town, repeatedly mentions "góra Mendoga" in his works, which spread the story. A marble slab on the summit was said to mark the grave of Kryśia, a beauty portrayed by the Italian sculptor Pietro Perti in Vilnius churches.

The hill lies in the block bounded by Minskaya Street, 1 Maya Street and the pedestrian crossing linking them, in central Navahrudak. The memorial stone of 1993 stands at its foot, and the 2.5-metre metal sculpture of Mindaugas was placed beside the hill in September 2014. The old cemetery on the hill stopped receiving burials in the early 1920s, so the surviving slabs are best examined on foot.

Although Mindaugas was the only king ever officially crowned in Lithuanian history, the hill bearing his name stands today in Belarus, far from Lithuania itself. This makes the site a rare example of a cross-border heritage shared between two countries.