Great Avtuki

Location

23 km southeast of Kalinkovich , 15 km from the railway station Golevitsy (on the line Gomel - Luninets ), 120 km from Gomel .

Hydrography

On the Dymarka River (a tributary of the Pripyat River ).

Transport links on the country, then the highway Gomel - Luninets . The layout consists of a long curved latitudinal street and a short rectilinear street parallel to it. Two-sided building, wooden, manor type.

According to written sources, it has been known since the 16th century as the Autichi village in the Mozyr district of the Minsk Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , and grand ducal property. In 1552, in the inventory of the Mozyr castle, the nature and size of the duties that residents were required to perform in favor of the castle were indicated. By 1560, it is listed in the acts on the demarcation of villages with neighboring villages. In the 17th century, immigrants from the village of Avtyuchavichy founded a new village and called it Small Avtyuki, and the village of Avtyuchavichy became known as Great Avtyuki, but the words Avtyuki and Avtyuchavichi were used together for a long time in the village names. The complaint of the owners of the Menchinsky village to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich , written in the autumn of 1654 in connection with the looting of the village, has been preserved. Under 1774 is indicated in the documents on the specification of the borders of the village.

After the 2nd division of the Commonwealth (1793) as part of the Russian Empire . The receipt of the Minsk recruitment department to Mozyrsky Starasta Yelensky on accepting from him on April 24, 1797 recruits from the village of Avtyuchavichi Veliky and Avtyuchavichy Malye was preserved. In 1795, in the Mozyr district of Minsk province . Paraskeevskaya Church operated (metric books from 1818 were stored in it). In 1850, a new church building was built in place of the old one. In 1821, anti-feudal protests by peasants from the villages of Veliky and Malyy Avtyuki took place. In 1844, a public school was opened. In 1885, the center of the volost, which in 1890 included 20 villages with 907 yards. According to the 1897 census, a church, a parish school, a bakery, and 2 taverns operated.

From December 8, 1926, the center of the Velikoavtyukovsky Village Council of Yurovichsky , from July 8, 1931 Mozyrsky , from July 3, 1939 the Kalinkovichi District of Rechitsky , from June 9, 1927 Mozyrsky (until July 26, 1930 and from June 21, 1935 to February 20, 1938) district, from February 20, 1938 Polesskaya , from January 8, 1954, Gomel regions.

In 1929, the collective farms "Red Wrestler" and "Red Star" were organized, a steam mill (since 1925), an equestrian krupoderoka (since 1926), a forge and a wool shop were operating. In the 1930s, the elementary school was transformed into a 7-year-old (in 1935, 341 students). During the Great Patriotic War in October 1943, the invaders burned 290 yards and shot 32 residents. Released on January 12, 1944. In battles near the village, 315 Soviet soldiers died (buried in a mass grave 2 km south of the village). Among the buried Hero of the Soviet Union A. A. Knyazev . 214 residents died at the front and in the partisan struggle. According to the 1959 census as part of the state farm "Golyavichi" (center - the village of Alexandrovka ). There are a secondary school, a kindergarten, a club, a library, a feldsher-midwife station, a post office , 2 shops. The village is widely known for its humor. In 1995, the first all-Belarusian festival of satire and humor took place here in 1997. And subsequently, their conduct has completely become a good tradition. And now tourist trips to this place are regularly organized not only from the cities of Belarus itself, but also from Russia, from Ukraine, from Poland.

Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Moskalenko was born in the village.

Strength

• 2004 - 272 households, 611 residents.

Dynamics

• 1795 - 116 yards.
• 1811 - 108 yards in Veliky Autyuki, 90 yards in Malyy Avtyuki.
• 1848 - 113 yards.
• 1885 - 161 yards, 1,025 inhabitants.
• 1897 - 191 yards, 1557 inhabitants ^[1] (according to the census).
• 1908 - 278 households, 1791 residents.
• 1940 - 490 yards, 1620 inhabitants.
• 1959 - 1639 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 2004 - 272 households, 611 residents.

• Ya. R. Moskalenko - Hero of the Soviet Union .

• City villages of Belarus
• Cities of Belarus

• Garady and Belarus Belarus: Encyclapedia. T.1, book 1. Gomel oblast / S.V. Marzeleў; Redlegal: G.P. Pashkoў (halogen redactar) і інш. - Mn .: BelEn, 2004.632s .: il. 4000 copies ISBN 985-11-0303-9 ISBN 985-11-0302-0 (Belarusian)
• Belarusian encyclopedia: At 18 vol. T. 4: Varanetsky - Galfstrym / Redkal: G.P. Pashkoў і іnsh. - Mn. : BelEn, 1997. - T. 4. - S. 387. - 480 p. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 985-11-0090-0 (v. 4). (belor.)

• Perky festival in Avtyuki - Belarus
• Culture Department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee (inaccessible link)