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- | ===== Page 581 - Юравічы ===== | + | ===== Page 581-583 - Юравічы ===== |
+ | ==== Geography ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Yurevichi is located 167.5m above sea level | ||
+ | * Marina on River Pripyat about 1km away | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== History ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Antiquity === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Site of iron age settlement | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Medieval Period === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Tartar and Mongol raids around 1240 burned down a fortified castle that stood in this area. | ||
+ | * Early city may have been called Vidolichy (Вiдолiчы) or Mezhymostse (Межымосце) | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Modern Period === | ||
+ | |||
+ | * In 1510, King Sigismund I the Elder ([[http:// | ||
+ | * Jesuits arrive in second-half of the 17th century. Wooden monastery built c.1673. | ||
+ | * King John III Sobieski ([[wp> | ||
+ | * November 1920 pogrom led by [[wp> | ||
+ | * Orphanage opens in 1928 | ||
+ | * In 1936, a folk choir is formed and becomes widely known | ||
+ | * " | ||
+ | * April 1943 guerrillas defeat the stronghold that the Germans created in the town. Fighting around the village killed 312 soldiers, who were burried in a mass grave. | ||
+ | * 188 Yurevichi residents killed on the front lines and partisan struggle. An obelisk memorial erected in 1967. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Population ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The population figures are for " | ||
+ | |||
+ | * 1834: | ||
+ | * Town: 66 homesteads (двор) | ||
+ | * Village: 51 homesteads | ||
+ | * 1848: 115 homesteads | ||
+ | * 1866: 134 homesteads | ||
+ | * 1897((References 1897 Census)) | ||
+ | * Town: 201 homesteads , 1320 people | ||
+ | * Village: 108 homesteads and 600 people | ||
+ | * 1930 | ||
+ | * Town: Yurevichi-1 and Yurevichi-2: | ||
+ | * Village: 114 homesteads, 463 residents | ||
+ | * 1939: 2546 residents | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Schools ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * 1865 Men's technical college (народны вучылiшча), | ||
+ | * 1875 Woman' | ||
+ | * 1897 Census | ||
+ | * Town: 2 religious schools (малітоўныя школы) | ||
+ | * Village: 2 town schools (народны вучылішчы) | ||
+ | * 1935 Original town schools now have 7 grades with 504 pupils | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Gentry ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Boguslaw Askerko (Багуслаў Аскерка) - Fiefdom lord who gave money in 1866 to rebuild Jesuit church in Orthodox style, 1865 to found a men's technical college and 1875 to found a women' | ||
+ | * Bakunenka (Бакуненка) - Estate owner who owned 3590 desyatina (дзесяціна зямлi)((Measurement of land equivalent to 2.7 acres)) and horse-powered grain mill | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Commerce ==== | ||
+ | * Late 1800s: Farming, trading of crafts including pottery | ||
+ | * Askerko was a major landlord with serfs working on his estate | ||
+ | * 1897((References 1897 Census)) | ||
+ | * Town: 40 shops (лавак), | ||
+ | * Village: Postal telegraph office, pharmacy, bakery or bread store (хлебазапасны магазін), | ||
+ | * 1930 Collectives "Red Banner" | ||
+ | * Brick and pottery | ||
+ | * Blacksmith | ||
+ | * Shoemaker | ||
+ | * Sheepskin cooperative | ||
+ | * Steam and windmills | ||
+ | * 2 forges | ||
+ | * " |
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