Ruchaivka (Loevsky district)

Location

Clay and peat deposits are located nearby. 25 km south-west of Loev , 63 km from the Rechitsa railway station (on the Gomel - Luninets line ), 117 km from Gomel .

Hydrography

In the south, a network of reclamation canals, in the east, the Pesochanka River, which flows into Lake Lutovskoye , located in the floodplain of the Dnieper River .

On the highway Bragin - Loev. The layout consists of an almost straight street, close to the latitudinal orientation, to which a short street joins from the north. Two-sided building, wooden, manor type.

According to written sources, it has been known since the beginning of the 19th century as a village in the Rechitsa district of the Minsk province . In 1850, the possession of the landowner Bykovskaya. In 1872, the wooden 5-domed Ascension Church was built, in which among the books there was an official published in Kiev in 1791, and the gospels published in Moscow in 1805 and 1863. In 1885, the center of Ruchaevsky volost, which included 12 villages with 438 yards. According to the census of 1897, a public school, a bread store, and a tavern operated. In 1916, the telegraph began work.

Since April 26, 1919 in the Gomel province of the RSFSR . As a result of the pogrom, which was launched by the Galaki gang on February 7, 1921, 40 residents were killed. On May 9, 1923, the volost was liquidated, and the territory was annexed to the Loevskaya and Kholmeche volosts. From December 8, 1926, as part of the BSSR, the center of the Ruchaevsky Village Council of Loevsky, from December 25, 1962 of Braginsky , from July 30, 1966 of the Loevsky districts of Rechitsky , from June 9, 1927 of the Gomel (until July 26, 1930) districts, from February 20, 1938 Gomel region .

In 1930, there was an elementary school , a reading room, and a department for consumer cooperation. In 1931, a collective farm named after the SNK of the BSSR was organized, a forge worked. During the Great Patriotic War, the invaders created their own garrison in the village, which was defeated by partisans on September 8, 1942. Punishers in 1943 burned 93 yards and killed 8 residents. In the battles for the liberation of the village and the surrounding area, 608 Soviet soldiers died, including Hero of the Soviet Union V.M. Lebedev (buried in a mass grave in the center of the village). According to the 1959 census, the center of the farm "Dawn". There are a secondary school, a cultural center, a library, a feldsher-midwife station, a veterinary department, a post office , a shoe shop, a shop, and a nursery-kindergarten.

The structure of the Ruchaevsky Village Council included until 1938 the village of Grebenistoye, until 1962 the village of Pogolnoye (until 1938 the village was called Krivin), which now does not exist.

Strength

• 1999 - 133 households, 372 residents.

Dynamics

• 1834 - 23 yards.
• 1850 - 27 yards, 177 inhabitants.
• 1885 - 67 households, 469 inhabitants.
• 1897 - 66 yards, 533 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 1908 - 104 yards, 602 inhabitants.
• 1930 - 69 yards, 399 inhabitants.
• 1940 - 103 yards, 496 inhabitants.
• 1959 - 420 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 1999 - 133 households, 372 residents.

• Gorbatsevich, Igor Semenovich - statesman, financier.
• Lemeshenko, Sergey Dmitrievich - Hero of Socialist Labor , Honored Livestock Specialist of the BSSR.

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