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.
Table of Contents
- 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.