Tonezh (Lelchitsy district)

Locationä

53 km west of Lelchitsy , 58 km from the railway station Zhitkovichi (on the line Luninets - Kalinkovichi ), 268 km from Gomel .

Hydrography

Near the village begins the river Mutvitsa (a tributary of the Kanava Main river).

On the highway Dzerzhinsk - Lelchitsy. The layout consists of a rectilinear street oriented from the southwest to the northeast. An arched street of almost meridional orientation joins the main one from the north. It is built up bilaterally, mainly by wooden houses of a manor type.

According to written sources, it has been known since the 16th century as a village in the Trok Voivodeship , and since 1565, in the Pinsk district of the Brest Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , noble property.

After the 2nd division of the Commonwealth (1793) as part of the Russian Empire . In 1811, in the Mozyr district of Minsk province . In 1834, as part of the Turov state estate. The St. Nicholas Church operated (metric books were stored from 1834). In 1859, instead of a dilapidated building, a new wooden church on a stone foundation was built. In 1863, the building was built and a school was opened. In 1866, the center of Tonezh volost, which in 1885 included 19 villages with 536 yards (from August 29, 1919 to August 10, 1920, the volost in the Gomel province was liquidated on July 17, 1924 and the territory was annexed to the Mozyr district ). According to the 1897 census, a church, a public school, a Jewish prayer school, and foster care were operating. In 1908, the post office worked.

From August 20, 1924, the center of the Tonezh Village Council of Turov , from April 17, 1962 Lelchitsky, from December 25, 1962 Mozyrsky , from January 6, 1965 Lelchitsky districts of Mozyr (from July 26, 1930 and from August 21, 1935 until February 20, 1938) district, from February 20, 1938 Polesskaya , from January 8, 1954, Gomel regions. In 1930, the collective farm "Trud" was organized, a resin factory, an alcohol-powder and tar factory, a wool marsh, a forge, a cloth mill, a steam mill, a windmill , a forestry, a feldsher-obstetric station were operating .

During the Great Patriotic War in 1943, the invaders burned the village, and on January 6, 1943, 261 people were burnt alive in the local church. In the mass grave, located at the intersection of Sovetskaya and Kolkhoznaya streets, 3 Red Army soldiers who died in 1922, and 12 Soviet soldiers and 2 partisans who died in 1944 are buried. 101 residents died on the fronts and in the partisan struggle. In memory of them, a sculpture of a soldier was installed in the memorial square in 1967. According to the 1959 census, the center of the Trud collective farm housed a bakery, a soft drink workshop, 2 sawmills, a mill, a sewing workshop, forestry, a secondary school, a culture center, a nursery, a library, a hospital, a pharmacy, a veterinary station, a communications department , 4 shops.

Two documentaries were made about Tonezh: Tonezh women (dir. Valery Rybarev , 1977) and Chyrachka (dir. Maria Kuracheva, 2014) ^{[1] [2]} .

Strength

• 2004 - 338 households, 725 inhabitants.

Dynamics

• 1811 - 64 yards.
• 1834 - 56 families, 314 inhabitants.
• 1866 - 76 yards of 428 residents.
• 1897 - 150 yards, 894 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 1908 - 177 households, 1,063 inhabitants.
• 1917 - 1269 inhabitants.
• 1925 - 232 yards.
• 1940 - 375 yards, 1350 inhabitants.
• 1959 - 1325 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 2004 - 338 households, 725 inhabitants.

• Drinevsky, Mikhail Pavlovich - Belarusian choir conductor.
• Sholkovich, Semyon Vukolovich - Russian historian and teacher.

• City villages of Belarus
• Cities of Belarus
• The list of settlements destroyed by the Nazis in Belarus

• Garady and Belarus Belarus: Encyclapedia. T.2, book 2. Gomel oblast / S. V. Marzeleў; Redlegal: G.P. Pashkoў (halogen redactar) і інш. - Mn .: BelEn, 2005.520s .: il. 4000 copies ISBN 985-11-0330-6 ISBN 985-11-0302-0