Yurevichi on the Pripyat

Icenka, U.F., Yurevichi on the Pripyat. Minsk, 2000. 65 pages. ISBN 985-6119-43-X.
Ісаенка, У. Ф., Юравічы над Прыпяццю. — Мн.: УП «Арты-Фэкс», 2000. — 65 с.: іл. ISBN 985-6119-43-X.

In the heart of Polessie … 3
Relief as a trace of the glacier … 6
Mammoth hunters … 9
Amazing antiquity … 12
Life in forest-steppe … 14
In the shades of somber forest … 16
Neolithic daybreak … 19
Going for “goods” with axes in hands … 22
The acquisition of the motherland … 23
Drigavichi pride … 25
Gradnya on Yura … 27
The light of Christianity .. 29
Princes rumbles … 30
In Grand Duchy of Lithuania … 33
The first data … 35
From the distemper to the war … 39
Missionaries-enlighteners … 42
The relic of Polessie … 45
Under the double eagle wings … 49
The land is a footstep away freedom … 53
A new century … 57
Yuravichi chronicles … 61
Illustrations … 65

Timeline

250-200 thousand years ago: Dneprovsky glacier retreat. A moraine ridge stretches from Mozyr till Yuravichi.
50-30 thousand years ago: The greatest warming in the middle of Poozerskaya ice age.
40 thousand years ago: A debacle of melt waters breaks from morained basin through a moraine ridge near Yuravichi. The narrow valley appeared.
26 thousand years ago: Mammoth hunters settled down on the bank of the Pripyat. The first Upper Paleolithic site.
7000-4500 B.C.: Pathfinders settled down in the valley of the Pripyat. Yuravichi-2, Akulinka, Lubnya, Lomish, Narovlya sites.
4500-2000(1800) B.C.: The dneprodonetskaya Neolithic culture. The settlements of fishermen: Yuravichi(near Litvin Lake), Slobodka, Grada, Shareyki(lakes).
500-800: The Eastern-Slavic tribes settle apart. Settlements and graves are in Yuracvihi(Litvin), Slobodka, Shareiki.
980: The first knowledge of Turov. Yuravichi foundation (950-1000).
988: Christianization of Russia in Turovschina (990-1000).
988-1009: Svyatopolk Yaropolchi in Turov.
1005: Episcopacy in Turov.
1155: The first knowledge of Mozyr (the property of Svyatoslav Olgovich).
1170: Possible knowledge of Yuravihi-Mejimoscse.
1150-1154?: Andrei Yuravich in Turov
1155-1160: The battle for Kiev and Turov between Volinsk princes and Yurii Dolgoruky.
1159: Svyatoslav Olgavichi owns Mozyr again.
1157-1162: Yurii Yaroslavichi (from Volinsk) in Turov
1162-1190: Svyatopolk Yuravich in Turov
1241: The mongol-tatars of khan Guyk destroy Kiev lands.
1273: Polessye first appears in Ipacseyski chronicle.
1280: The Lithuanians defeated mongol-tatars near Mozyr.
1320: Narimunt the son of Gedemin temporarily owns Mozyr.
1342-1345: The lands near Mozyr and Rechitsa (besides these towns) as well as Yuravichi with its suburbs and Litvin Lake started became the part of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1388: Vitovt let the Jews to settle in Lithuania.
1390: The Tartars destroyed Turov
1413: The establishment of Minsk province (practically since 1566) that included Yuravichi.
1430-1434: Grand prince Svidrigailo gave up Yuravichi to Bogdan Serbin for his service.
1497: Mozyr lands were ruined by the Tartars. Kiev Metropolitan Makarii was killed.
1502-1527: The Tartars attack almost every year generally in winter.
1505: The depredation of Krim princes Mahmet-Girey, Bitsi-Girey and Burnas from Loev crossing till to the central part of Belarus.
1508: Prince Glinsky launched an insurrection in Mozyr.
1510: The first record about Yuravichi as the property of Senka and Fedka Bogdanocich-Serbin ( according to Lithuanian metrics).
1521, 1534: The Tartars butchered and ruined Mozyr.
1535: Moscow troops headed by Telepnev and Prince Auchina-Abalensky attacked the towns in Pripyat region.
1550: Yuravichi belongs to Mozyr volast
1552: Another record of Yuravichi: it belongs to landowner Koscushkovich and there are 23 homesteads. Yuravichi is a adscripted to Mozyr castle.
1565: Yuravichi is part of Mozyr povet of Kiev voivodship.
1569: Yuravichi and Mozyr povet are in Minsk voevodship.
1600: Yuravichi belongs to Servacsiy Askerak who is a tycoon and a ruler.
1622: The treasure with coins was burried in Yuravichi (found in 1951).
1630: Our Lady icon got to Society of Jesus in Yuravichi from Poland.
1647-1654: The liberation movement of Cossacks in Ukraine. Bogdan Hmelnicsky. Peasants rebellions at Polessye.
1649: Colonel Krichevsky conducts his campaign through Yuravichi to Loev in August.
1652: Jesuits in Mozyr start their missionary work in Yuravichi.
1659: A Russian troop headed by Prince Volkonsky occupied Mozyr.
1666: On the map of D'Abevil Yuravichi is called Yurovo.
1670: Mozyr became royalty.
1673: A wood chapel was built and cosecrated in Yuravichi on September 5 to keep the Our Lady icon.
1674: Barbara Lashchina(of Yudzicskie) and Mariana Baibuzyanka-Katarskaya gave their property to the Jesuits - the two parts of Yuravichi.
1678: A poem in honor of “Wonderful panna Yuravicskaya at habitable hills between Polessye deserts” was printed in Vilno in Polish.
1680: Jesuits mission in Yuravichi.
1683: Yuravichi was given royal privileges.
1715: A new Catholic Church was built.
1717: The building of a new cloister with a church started.
1722: Prudok and Shareiki farmsteads are given up to the Jesuits. Kustovnitsa and Mitkovshchina estates are given up to them in a year.
1727: Yuravichi was given privileges for trade from the king Avgust II.
1732: Taras Orshicsky constructed the main altar in the Catholic Church. It was donated by Stepan Petrovsky.
1742: Priest Francsishak Kolberg published his writing “The wells of Maria's wonderful grace from Yuravichi hills” in Polish. The second edition was published in 1755.
1748: Gaydamaks ransacked Yuravichi residence on October 14.
1756: Yuravichi abbey opened a school.
1758 (Septemer 5): Wonderworking icon of Yuravichi Lady was relocated to a newly built Catholic Church.
1773: Pope Klimentiy XIV forbade Jesuit orden that had been functioning since 1673.
1773: Bernardians settled down in Yuravichi abbey till 1789.
1778 (May 5): The last king Stanislav-Avgust Ponyatovky gave privileges to Yuravichi.
1789: Dominicans at Yuravichi abbey till 1799.
1787: Yuravichi Church school established (40 pupils).
1793 (May 4): Minsk province(gubernia) was established. Yuravichi is a part of Mozyr povet.
1794 (June): Yuravichi Georgiev Church along with Shareyskaya Mikolaevskaya Church withdrew the union and joined Orthodox Church.
1795: Restoration of the abbey school in Yuravichi (till 1820).
1800: Capuchins had served in Yuravichi abbey till 1832 by the order of Minsk bishop Y.Dzederka.
1802: Yuravichi is a part of Rechitsa povet.
1839: There are 70 homesteads in Yuravichi.
1840: Yuravichi wharf on the Pripyat works.
1840: Yuravichi Catholic Church was given back to Catholic parish as a parochial church. A wooden Saint Toitskaya Church was built.
1845: Yuravichi old-time residents grow up: Bulgak, Kozlovsky, Kovshun, Kasyan, Komchanko, Kusher, Myalanichi, Nagorny, Prudkevich, Chuhel, Yushchenko
1863: 756 people live in Yuravichi. 136 of them are Jews.
1863: Yuravichi Catholic Church was closed. The last priest was H.Horadecsky. Catholic Churches were only in Barbarov and Mozyr since then.
1864 (November 27): The Catholic Church was given up to Orthodox department. General governor Muravyev took care about it.
1865: 534 tons of goods (spirit, tobacco, wood, wool) were dispatched from Yuravichi wharf. The grand total was 11.600 rubles.
1865: Anton Sakovich painted a lot of icons.
1865: The first public school in Yuravichi established. Mihail Drozdovsky was among the first teachers.
1866: Catholic parish in Yuravichi was finally closed.
1868: On the second day of Trinity Alexander II presented the icon of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky to Yuravichi people.
1870: A military route was laid through Yuravichi.
1871: A public school for women was established in Yuravichi. Alena Mitrofanovna was the first teacher.
1872: The reconstruction of Yuravichi Catholic Church into twelve-cupola Orthodox Church headed by architect S.Ivanov.
1876 (September 18): The statement of completion of “Vo imya Rozhdestva Presvyatoi Bogorodicsi” cathedral building was signed.
1878: There are 22 settlements in Yuravichi volast - 18 elderships and 19 communities. According to other sources the are 43 villages.
1885: There are 177 homesteads, 756 people and 1231 Orthodox believers in Yuravichi.
1890: A post-office appeared in Yuravichi and there are 10 beds in the hospital.
1890: Fedor Melej from Glinishci (grandfather of Belarussian writer I.P.Melej) is a foreman in volast (till 1898).
1901: About 1000 people live in Yuravichi. The town is locally controlled. There are a police office, the church, a pharmacy, a synagogue. 750 tons of goods were dispatched from the wharf
1904: There are revolutionary groups in Yuravichi (up to 50 members).
1905 (Spring): Mass meetings of Yuravichi peasants.
1905 (September): Peasants strikes in Aleksichi and Berozka villages.
1906 (January): Repressions of Tsar authorities.
1906 (Fall): Commotions in Yuravichi when Russo-Japanese War soldiers came back.
1917 (November 23): Yuravichi people learnt about the October revolution.
1917 (December 5): The representative of Rechitsa Sovet declared the first decrees of Soviet power in Yuravichi.

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