The settlement is first mentioned in 1560 as belonging to the Svislach volost within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.^[1] During the administrative reforms of 1565–1566, it was included in Minsk Voivodeship.^[1]

Following its incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1793, it was included in Igumensky Uyezd of Minsk Governorate.^[1]

According to the 1926 Soviet census, there were 907 Jews living in Lapichy.^[3] By mid-1941, the Jewish population had decreased substantially due to emigration.^[3]

During World War II, it was under German military occupation from early July 1941 until June 1944.^[3] About 300 Jews remained there at the start of the occupation.^[3]

The first Aktion took place on 18 August 1941, in which an Einsatzkommando detachment shot 107 Jews who were accused of supporting the partisans.^[3] In January 1942, the Germans rounded up the Jews and placed them in three houses.^[3] 10 or 12 were kept behind and shot.^[3] In April, the Germans gathered the more than 140 remaining Jews and shot them.^[3]

• Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Dean, Martin (2012). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume II. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 1695. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.
• Nasevich, V. L. (1999). "Лапічы". Беларуская энцыклапедыя: У 18 т. Т. 9: Кулібін — Малаіта (in Belarusian). Minsk: Беларуская энцыклапедыя. p. 133. ISBN 985-11-0155-9.