Lenino (Dobrush district)

Location

40 km south of the regional center of Dobrush , 1 km from the railway station Krugovets , 60 km from Gomel . 1 km from the border with Russia .

Transport connection on a country road, then on the highway Terekhovka - Gomel . The village has 158 residential buildings (2004). The layout consists of 3 parallel rectilinear streets, with orientation from southeast to northwest, connected by lanes. The building is two-sided, with wooden houses of a manor type. In 1986, brick houses for 100 families were built, in which residents were resettled from territories contaminated after the Chernobyl disaster .

Near the village there is a deposit of molding and glass sand. Estimated reserves 52 million tons.

3 km southeast of the village, archaeologists discovered a hillfort. This find indicates the settlement of these places since ancient times.

According to written sources, the village has been known since the 18th century as the village of the Rechitsa district of the Minsk Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . After the 1st partition of the Commonwealth ( 1772 ) as part of the Russian Empire . In 1775, the village was owned by Field Marshal Count P.A. Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky . Since 1834, the possession of Field Marshal Count I.F. Paskevich . In 1788, in the Belitsky district of the Mogilev province . In 1796, in the Khomin economy of the Gomel estate. In 1827, the village , part of it belonged to Count Zavadsky. In 1848 the St. Nicholas Church operated (it was being renovated in 1865). Since 1860, a workshop for processing hides worked. In 1881, the village was the center of Popovskaya, and after the Lenin volost (until May 9, 1923). The volost consisted of 12 settlements with 1385 yards. In 1890, a bakery store and a public school worked (it has been operating since 1869). In 1889, 89 boys and 6 girls studied at the school. In 1897, there were a church, 3 grain stores, 2 shops, an inn . Nearby was the eponymous farm .

In June 1919, an agricultural cooperative was organized. In 1926, there was a post office, a 7-year-old and elementary school, a reading room, and a treatment center.

From December 8, 1926, as part of the Byelorussian SSR , the center of the Leninsky Village Council of Krasnobudsky, from August 4, 1927 Terekhovsky, from December 25, 1962 the Dobrush district of the Gomel region , from February 20, 1938 of the Gomel region .

In 1929, the collective farm "Red Drummer" was organized. A sewing artel, 4 windmills , a horse grinder worked in the village.

During World War II, the occupiers in September 1943 burned 397 yards and killed 20 civilians. In the battle for the village, 16 Soviet soldiers and 3 partisans who were buried in a mass grave in the center of the village were killed. Released on September 25, 1943. In memory of those killed in 1963, a warrior sculpture and a memorial park were set up in the center of the village.

In 1959, the center of the collective farm named after V.I. Lenin. A quartz sand extraction and enrichment factory, a consumer services center, a secondary school, a cultural center, a library, a feldsher-midwife station, a nursery school , a communications department , a canteen, and 2 shops are located and operate.

Strength

2004 - 334 yards, 782 residents.

Dynamics

• 1788 - 101 inhabitants.
• 1816 - 87 yards.
• 1834 - 96 yards, 487 inhabitants.
• 1848 - 250 yards.
• 1881 - 306 yards, 1846 inhabitants.
• 1897 - 355 households, 2,314 residents (according to the census).
• 1909 - 377 households, 2561 residents.
• 1926 - 448 yards.
• 1940 - 497 yards.
• 1959 - 1230 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 2004 - 334 yards, 782 residents.

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