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   * Yurevichi is located 167.5m above sea level
   * Marina on River Pripyat about 1km away
 ==== History ====
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   * Jesuits arrive in second-half of the 17th century. Wooden monastery built c.1673.  Two-story stone monastery later built in 1700s.
   * King John III Sobieski ([[wp>John_III_Sobieski|каролъ Ян III Сабескi]]) issues charter for Yurevichi town in 1683.
-  *
+  * November 1920 pogrom led by [[wp>Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz|Bułak-Bałachowicz (банды Булак-Балаховіча)]] "gang" killed 18 "people"
+  * Orphanage opens in 1928
+  * In 1936, a folk choir is formed and becomes widely known
+  * "Belorussian Patriotic War"
+    * 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 ====
-  * 1834: the town had 51 households and the village 66 households.
+The population figures are for "двор", which comprises an extended family, residential building, stables, farm animals and equipment.  We will refer to "двор" as "homestead".
-  * 1848: 115 households
-  * 1866: 134 households
+  * 1834:
+    * Town: 66 homesteads (двор)
+    * Village: 51 homesteads
+  * 1848: 115 homesteads
+  * 1866: 134 homesteads
   * 1897((References 1897 Census))
-    * Town: 201 households, 1320 people
+    * Town: 201 homesteads , 1320 people
-    * Village: 108 households and 600 people
+    * Village: 108 homesteads and 600 people
+  * 1930
+    * Town: Yurevichi-1 and Yurevichi-2: 300 homesteads, 1537 residents
+    * Village: 114 homesteads, 463 residents
+  * 1939: 2546 residents
 ==== Schools ====
-  * 1885 Town School (народны вучылiшча) with 45 students
+  * 1865 Men's technical college (народны вучылiшча), built by Boguslaw Askerko. There are 45 students in 1885.
-  * 1875 Woman's College (Дзейнiчала жаночае вучылiшча). 25 pupils in 1885. FIXME: confirm translation
+  * 1875 Woman's trade school (Дзейнiчала жаночае вучылiшча), built by Boguslaw Askerko, opens.  There are 25 pupils by 1885.
   * 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) - gave money in 1866 to rebuild Jesuit church in Orthodox style
+  * 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's trade school.
-  * Bakunenka (Бакуненка) - Estate owner who owned 3590 acres (дзесяціна зямлi) and horse farm
+  * 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
-  * 1897 Census
+    * Askerko was a major landlord with serfs working on his estate
+  * 1897((References 1897 Census))
     * Town: 40 shops (лавак), 4 tanneries (майстэрні па апрацоўцы скуры), 2 taverns (карчмы)
     * Village: Postal telegraph office, pharmacy, bakery or bread store (хлебазапасны магазін), 2 windmills (ветракі), horse farm (конны млын) and tavern (карчма). A farm named Yurovichi was nearby.
+  * 1930 Collectives "Red Banner" (Чырвоны Сцяг) and "Drummer" (Ударнік)
+    * Brick and pottery
+    * Blacksmith
+    * Shoemaker
+    * Sheepskin cooperative
+    * Steam and windmills
+    * 2 forges
+    * "Kruparushka" (крупарушка)((A coarse-grind grain mill for the production of porridge from cereals, such as kasha from buckwheat))