Kazan (Gomel region)

Location

36 km north of Kalinkovich , 12 km from the Kholodnik railway station (on the Zhlobin - Kalinkovichi line ), 158 km from Gomel .

Hydrography

In the west, there are meliorative canals and the Ipa River (a tributary of the Pripyat River ).

Transport links along the country road, then the Kalinkovichi- Bobruisk motorway . The layout consists of an arc-shaped long street ( Lenin Street), to the center of which from the west is joined a short straight-line street (the people are Makarov village). The building is double-sided, wooden, brick, as well as from aerated concrete blocks , manor type.

According to written sources known since 1617 as a spiritual estate belonging to the Mozyr Plebania, the Minsk Roman Catholic Spiritual Consistory. Located in the Mozyr district of Minsk province of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Since 1797 - as part of Rechitsa County . Under the year 1778 is designated as a village in Ozarichsky parish .

Fundushev estate Kurodichi already existed by 1617. In the archives of NIAB there was a record: “The letter of King Sigismund III from 1617, July 20, with a fundus for the Mozyr Church, as well as restrictions on the Kurodić estate”. Thus, from 1617 to 1843 (226 years), the spiritual estate of Kurodichi belonged to the Mozyr Plebania , the Minsk Roman Catholic Spiritual Consistory ^[1] .
After the 2nd partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793) as part of the Russian Empire . In 1795, the estate was the master of the court.

Revision Tales from 1795: “1795, the month of November of the 14th day, part of the Minsk province, into districts divided into the village of Ku'rodich (Kurodycz), which belonged by right to fundus before the Plebania of the Mozyr Roman Catholic confession, which is within the Empire, and Acting in the Office of the Priest Anthony Grondzkogo, Canon Smolensk Pleban Mozyr. The same Pleban is the owner ” ^[2] .

In 1843 - 1844, the estate was transferred to the Treasury.

By 1864, all the villages adjacent to Kurodichi were Orthodox. Some did not leave Orthodoxy, some villages joined from Uniatism to Orthodoxy until 1839. In Kurodiches themselves, at least half of the villagers remained Catholics, which gave them certain problems when they entered into marriage with residents of neighboring villages. On October 17, 1864, 17 families of the village Kurodichi voluntarily decided to move from the Roman Catholic faith to the Orthodox. On October 25, 1864, in the presence of 5 officials, the ceremony was performed. After the conversion of the villagers to Orthodoxy, the village of Kurodichi was renamed Kazan, and the inhabitants of the village were attached to the parish of the Domanovichi St. Michael's Church.

In 1885, in Rechitsky district of Minsk province . According to the 1897 census, the villages of Kazan-Zamost (there was a church) and Kazansk-Bovdir (there was a church, a bread store, a horse mill).

In 1930 the “Sower”, “Red Kazansky” and “Victory” collective farms were organized , a windmill , a forge, and a 7-year school worked (in 1935 - 181 students). From 1939 until July 16, 1954, the center of the Martinovichsky Village Council of the Domanovichsky District of Polesskaya , from January 8, 1934, of the Gomel Region. During World War II , 136 Soviet soldiers were killed in battle near the village (buried in a mass grave in a cemetery). 102 inhabitants died at the front. In 1971, the center of the collective farm "Sower". Located 9-year-old school, club, library, first-aid station, post office , shop.

From November 1843 to March 1844, the transfer of the Kauodichi estate was transferred to the administration of state property. In the course of the transfer, it became clear that “the peasants of the estate show a dispute with the landowner Gorvatom by 1 versts wide by 3 versts, what statement they heard from their ancestors .... In this dispute, the Minsk Chamber of State Property, collecting information about this dispute, found that in the Rechitsa district court there is a case of robberies committed to the peasants Kuroditsky, saving Korzhenovskiy landowner Gorvat ... Then, with the permission of the aforementioned report, the prescriptions were sent to the Rechytsa district court, immediately The closest information about the circumstances of the case, as well as send to this chamber the documents submitted by Kuroditsky plebianie on this case .... and finally bring copies of delimitation cases of the Kurodsky estate, transferred from the Rechytsa Land Survey Court, if there are and in what position. On top of this, the State Property Chamber reported to the Minsk Roman Catholic Theological Consistory with the requirement to notify whether landown disputes, especially with landowner Gorvat, were infuriated by the Kuroditsky estate, and what was being done by the Ecclesiastical Administration to secure fundus property from taking possession of this landlord , and required to send documents, if any.

.... The Minsk Roman Catholic Spiritual Consistory notified that it was not visible in its affairs, so that from the estate of Kurodić, which belonged to the Mozyr Roman Catholic plebania, landmarks were disputed with the landowner Horvat, and there are no documents about that in the Consistory ... .

It was decided that the testimony of the peasants of the Kurodich estate .... attach to the ones in the delamination case of the Kurodich estate .... The Mozyr District State Property Administration will order that the real borders of the Kurodić estate remain integral in the position in which they were found from the office of the Mozyr Roman Catholic Plebania to the Ministry of State Property. ”
In 1842, the Kalinkovichi rural society was formed, to which the village Kurodichi was joined, after its transfer to the Treasury.

In business reference No. 303 dated November 15, 1843 is given, which contains a description by residents of the borders of the Kurodichi estate:

"In describing the Commission Kurodich estate borders peasants thereof showed that actual border fundushevogo estate Kurodich starts from the tract Poplavets, a thereof, for the tract Pnіove, in the tract Vizhar with thereof in Kolodezik with Kolodezika in the tract Vyazin from roofing felt in a puddle with a thereof, in Ostrov, and from the Island to the Terebnya River, and from this to the Dovgy Mys, and further to the Anany Horn, with which to the Iptu River, which borders are intact and there are no disputes, they heard from their ancestors, that the border of the estate Kurodich sure It has its origin from the Ipta River to the Bobovitsa River, from it to the Guberovsky ford, from the roofing to the Deep Moss, from its valley under the Glory tract, from the mudflow to the hills, from the hill to the Kamen tract, , and from roofing to the Rastishche tract with the Great Bor in the crosses or drains of the Cross, from these to Tsatskova Luzha and further to the Terebnya river, which to Dubovets, from that to Otrev Kuren to the natural part of Vysokiy Chastil brought from the stake to the beaver Klnetsch, and thereof in the river Iptu, which further the border continues into the river Bobovitsa, from where the grand tsa. And that, according to such a restriction, it now consists in the possession of the landowner Gorvat Kuroditskaya land, 1 mile wide, and up to 3 miles long. However, there is no knowledge of such a seizure, they are not known to the peasants, just as explained above, they have heard from their ancestors, which we have the honor to bring to the attention of the District Authority, independently of the commission.

According to Reviz Tales of 1795, there are 29 courtyards in the village of Kurodichi. There are a total of 176 inhabitants, 84 men, and 92 women. Among the villagers, the names are distributed as follows:

• Tozik - 7 yards;
• Lavda - 6 yards;
• Dead end - 5 yards;
• Bovdyr - 2 yard;
• Gerdun (later transformed into the name of the Hunchback) - 2 courtyards.

Residents of the remaining 5 yards carry the names: Shlyaga, Nail, Cherny, Lopushko, Godlevsky.

According to Reviz Tales of 1850, there are 36 yards in the village of Kurodichi. A total of 243 inhabitants, men - 129, women - 114. Among the inhabitants of the village the names are distributed as follows:

• Tozik - 13 yards;
• Lavda - 5 yards;
• Dead end - 5 yards;
• Lopushko - 4 yards;
• Godlevsky - 2 yards;
• Bovdyr - 2 yard.

Residents of the remaining 5 yards have the surnames: Hunchback, Shlyaga, Nail, Kamyk (later transformed into Kalmyk), Black.

As can be seen from the above statistics, the indigenous surnames of the village are Tozik, Loveda and Dead End. Apparently representatives of these very names founded the village, which has been known since 1617.

Strength

• 2004 - 137 farms, 306 inhabitants.

Dynamics

According to Reviz Tales, it turned out to collect statistics on the village Kurodichi for 1795, 1816, 1834, 1850 and 1858:

• 1778 - 25 houses.
• 1795 - 29 yards.
• 1834 - 32 courtyards.
• 1850 - 243 inhabitants.
• 1885 - 53 yards, 332 inhabitants.
• 1897 - Kazansk-Zamosc - 43 yards, 253 inhabitants and Kazansk-Bovdir - 48 yards, 278 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 1908 - 114 households, 735 inhabitants.
• 1959 - 599 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 1971 - 184 yards, 560 inhabitants.
• 2004 - 137 farms, 306 inhabitants.

• TP Lukashenko - Hero of Socialist Labor .
• Dmitry Grigorievich Tupik - Private of the Siberian Grenadier Regiment , heroically killed during the Battle of Borodino ( Kalinkovichi State Museum of Local Lore ).
• Tozik, Anatoly Afanasyevich - Ambassador of Belarus to China (2006–10), Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus (since 2010).

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• Garad and ёskі Belarus: Entsyklapedya. Т.1, кн.1. Gomel Voblast / S. V. Marzaleh; Redkalegiya: G.P. Pashko (halo redactar) and іnsh. - Minsk: BelEn, 2004. 632 p .: il. Tyrazh 4000 copies. ISBN 985-11-0303-9 ISBN 985-11-0302-0