Glusk

Population - 7233 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2016) ^[1] .

It is located on the Ptich River (a tributary of Pripyat), 33 km from the railway station Ratmirovichi , 165 km from Minsk , 168 from Mogilev , 205 km from Gomel .

In the urban village are located:

• CJSC Gluskdrev
• UKP "Bytuslug"
• Glusky branch of OJSC "Grandma's Krynka"
• Sawing and woodworking workshop GLHU "Glussky forestry"
• LLC Technotransdetal
• Glussky Raipo
• Hotel Glusk
• GUKDSP "Glusskaya PMK number 249"

Transport

Passengers are transported by the Glus branch Autopark No. 15 of Mogilevoblavtotrans OJSC was established on February 19, 2009 on the basis of the property of the transformed republican unitary subsidiary Glus motor transport company Avtomobilny Park No. 15 together with RUMAP Oblavtotrans into an open joint stock company and is a separate division of an open joint stock company Society "Mogilevoblavtotrans".

To serve the population in the region, there are 5 intercity, 13 suburban, 2 city routes. An automobile route network in rural areas covers rural settlements, central estates of collective farms, state farms and rural Soviets. The route network is 444.7 km long.

The date of foundation of Glusk is 1360 . Its first owner was Ivan Golshansky, whose son, Yuri Dumbrovitsky, built a wooden castle in Glusk.

In 1508, negotiations were held here with the ambassadors of Vasily Ivanovich Mikhail Glinsky.

In 1552, the rulers of these lands received the right to hold fairs from the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I the Old. Eight years later, the sisters Nastasya and Sofia Golshansky divided Glusk equally.

In 1565-1566, administratively-territorially included in the Novogrudok district.

Since 1568, Y. Hatkevich had the title of "Count on Shklov, Bykhov, Mouse and Glusk."

In 1571, 124 houses and 12 shops.

Glussky castle existed in the XVI-XVIII centuries, was located on the elevated part of the right bank of the Ptich River, on the site of the ancient city of the Early Iron Age and Kievan Rus. According to historical sources, in the 16th century the Glus Castle was surrounded by an earthen defensive rampart with wooden walls, fortified with wooden towers, including an entrance tower, access to which was possible through a drawbridge. The castle was an important strategic point on the path of a possible attack of the Crimean Tatars at the end of the 16th century, Cossack corrals in the middle of the 17th century, during the war of Russia with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1654-1667. The decline of the castle falls at the end of the 18th century. Currently, the castle is completely destroyed.

Since the end of the XVIth century, the Glubusk co-owners have become the Polubinsky and Chartorysky.

In 1616, the inhabitants of Glusk to prevent theft from the hussars going to the war in Smolensk attacked the detachment, defeated it and captured the convoy. In response, the hussars burned Glusk and killed a large number of residents of Glusk and the surrounding area.

In 1626, Prince M. Yu. Chartorysky sold his part of Glusk to Prince KA Palubinsky, who became the sole owner of the town.

In 1662, in Glusk, the headman of Volkovysk, Alexander Polubinsky, built a church and a Bernardine monastery . In 1775, a severe fire broke out in the town, and almost all the buildings burned down.

The gloomy county belonged to the Radziwills, and in 1793, as a result of the division of the Commonwealth, its lands became part of Russia. Glusk was assigned to the Bobruisk district of Minsk province ^[2] .

Since 1924, the center of the Glussky district.

On September 27, 1938, the town of Glusk in the Glussky district of the Polessye region was assigned to the category of urban-type settlements.

From June 1941 to June 1944, the village was occupied by Nazi invaders, who destroyed 3,000 Jews in the area. Glusk liberated the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front on June 27, 1944.

In 1962-1966, it was part of the Bobruisk district.

There is no administrative division of the urban village into districts. However, the population distinguishes the following parts of the city:

• "Centre"
• "Sloboda"
• "Peat Plant"
• Seven Winds (Seven)
• Church District
• "Second school"
• “Khvastovichi”
• "Hospital"
• "First school"
• "Deep valley"
• The Little Marathon
• "Sub-Sue"

In Glusk there is a settlement of the 1st millennium BC. e., the settlement of the Iron Age and the ruins of a medieval castle.

The remains of earthen fortifications of the 16th – 17th centuries, as well as traditional and historical buildings of the early 20th century, have been preserved in the city.

Since 1988, excavations have been conducted on the site of the remains of earthworks.

In Glusk, a memorial complex was built for fellow countrymen, and a monument was erected twice to the Hero of the Soviet Union S. F. Shutov .

Legends and traditions

In the middle of the last century ( 1960 ), a treasure was discovered in Glusk, parts of which are stored in the Mogilev regional and Bobruisk local history museums.

In the vicinity of Glusk, stones were found, the so-called "stone investigators", with images of legs, faces, crosses. They are popularly called "damn" or "God." If the former were bypassed before, the latter was worshiped - it was believed that either the Virgin or one of the saints left a mark here .

• Belaya, Zoya Alexandrovna (1924-1992) - artist of the Moscow Operetta Theater. Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

• Golshansky, Semyon Yuryevich
• Glussky Ghetto
• Towns of Belorussia

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