Kirovsk (Belarus)

The village of Kocherichi was first mentioned in the 16th century as a village in Rechytsa district of Minsk province . In 1560 there were 30 courtyards here. In 1620 there were 20 courtyards in Kocherichi and a church was functioning ^[3] .

As a result of the second section of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793), Kocherichi became part of the Russian Empire , where they became the center of the Bobruisk parish.

In 1844, the village of Elders was also a part of the Kocherici estate, where in 1845 a glass factory was founded. In 1847 there were 45 courtyards in Starz. In 1882, the distillery began to work here. According to the results of the 1897 census , there were 72 yards in Startsy, a bakery, a tavern, and an inn. In 1907 there were already 93 yards. In 1909, a local school was opened here, for which a separate building was built in 1913 ^[4] .

Modernity

From January 1918, the Elders were occupied by the troops of the Polish corps of General Joseph Dovbor-Musnitsky . Since May, occupied by German troops . To fight the invaders, a partisan detachment led by Kirill Orlovsky was organized here. In September, a revolutionary committee was established ^[5] .

On January 1, 1919, in accordance with the resolution of the 1st Congress of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belarus, the Elders became part of the Byelorussian SSR . However, already on January 16, at a plenary session of the Central Committee of the RCP (B.) , A decision was made to annex all the Belarusian lands, except Minsk and Grodno gubernia , to the RSFSR . The elders returned to the BSSR in 1924 as part of the Startsevsky village council of the Bobruisk district ^{[6] [5]} .

In the early 1920s, a 4-year school was established here. In 1921 a water mill was built. In 1922, an izba reading room was opened. In 1926, the post office began to operate. In 1928 the agricultural artel was created ^[5] .

In 1934, near the village of Startsy, the village of Kirovsk was organized on the site of former farmsteads and the village of Kocherichi. The village was named in honor of Sergei Kirov , secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU (b). Although Kirov is not related to the locality and in general to Belarus as a whole, toponyms in his honor began to appear throughout the Soviet Union after he was killed in 1934. On February 12, 1935, a new Kirovsky district was formed from parts of the neighboring districts with its center in the village of Startsy. On April 20, 1939, the village of Startsy was renamed Kirovo. At this time, Pimen Panchenko , the future People’s Poet of the BSSR , taught at the local school ^[5] .

The village was occupied by German troops on June 30, 1941 . In the Kirov district, 1,495 people were killed by invaders. In the summer of 1941, an anti-fascist group led by Korzhov was formed in the area. In April 1942, a large part of the underground workers entered the Kirov Partisan Detachment (leader Svirid). On June 26, 1944, the village of the 95th Tank Brigade (commander Andrei Kuznetsov) was liberated with the support of aviation. On June 29, a company under the command of Alexander Chernysh (awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union ) near the village beat off 14 enemy counterattacks ^[5] .

On November 15, 1955, the village of Kirovsk and the villages of Kirovo and Staroselye were merged into one settlement - a village called Kirovsk, which, in turn, on November 17, 1959, received the status of an urban-type settlement . At the 1959 census, the population of Kirovsk numbered 2,980 inhabitants. In 1971 in Kirovsk - 4700 inhabitants. In 1977, the village Selishche was included in the composition of the urban settlement. In 1972 and 1980 there were general plans for building the village. In accordance with them, the central part was built up with 2-3-storey houses, and in the northeast sector, construction of 2-5-storey houses was carried out. According to the general plan of 1998, the settlement develops in the northern and eastern directions ^[5] .

June 4, 2001 Kirovsk received city status. In the same year, the coat of arms was approved - on a blue field on green ground stands a golden sheaf tied with a silver ribbon. In 2002, the city had a population of 8,800 ^[5] . In our time, the question of renaming the city to some historical name, Kocherichi ^[7] or the Elders ^[8] , is periodically raised.

• Combine building materials
• IOOO "Kirov food factory"
• JSC "PMK - 97 Vodstroy"
• DRSU number 197 branch of PMC Mogilevbldorstroy
• JSC "Kirovsky Rayagropromtekhsnab"

At 27 kilometers to the southeast of Kirovsk, in the village of Zhilichi, is the Bulgakov Palace and Park Ensemble ^[15] .

• Urban settlements of Belarus
• Cities of Belarus

• History of Kirovsk