Ptich (Gomel region)

26 km north-east of Petrikov , 161 km from Gomel . On the Ptich River (a tributary of the Pripyat River ). Railway station on the line Luninets - Kalinkovichi .

In the south, east and west it borders on the forest.

According to written sources, it has been known since the beginning of the 16th century as a village in the Rechitsa district of the Minsk Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Under 1507, it was designated as the center of the Ptichsky volost. In a letter of 1540, a subject of the Ptichsky volost requests that he be exempted from taxes imposed by the late landowner Holstein. Under 1567 the year is indicated in the census ON.

After the 2nd division of the Commonwealth (1793) as part of the Russian Empire . With the commissioning of the Luninets -Gomel railway on February 15, 1886, a railway station began operation, at which at the beginning of the 20th century up to 700 thousand pounds of timber and grain cargo were loaded annually. According to the census of 1897, an inn, a tavern operated. Bermanov sawmill (21 workers) worked at the station. In 1908, in the Kopatkevichy volost of the Mozyr district of the Minsk province . There was a post office. As a result of the fire on May 19, 1909, 12 houses and 15 outbuildings burned down.

In June 1917, a strike occurred at the Berman sawmill and plywood factory. Workers demanded a 40 percent increase in wages, the creation of a health insurance fund, and the payment of money during the strike. The owners of the plant were forced to meet these requirements.

In 1920, the school began work at the railway station, and in 1922 in the village.

From August 20, 1924, the center of the Ptichsky Village Council of Kopatkevichsky , from July 8, 1931 Petrikovsky, from February 12, 1935 Kopatkevichsky, from December 25, 1962 the Petrikovsky District of Mozyr (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 1931, a collective farm was organized, a resin factory and a woodworking workshop worked. From July 15, 1935 to September 27, 1938 a working village. During World War II, partisans blew up a railway bridge over the Ptich River on November 3, 1942 and stopped traffic on the Zhitkovichi -Kalinkovichi section for 18 days. In the fall of 1942, the invaders killed 68 residents from the villages of Ptich and Bagrimovichi (buried in a mass grave in the cemetery). 78 residents died at the front. According to the 1959 census, the center of the collective farm “40 years of the October Revolution”. There are a workshop of the Kalinkovichi feed mill, a sewing workshop, forestry, a secondary school (in 1985, a new building was built under the direction of the school director A. L. Polyak), a club, a library, a kindergarten, an outpatient clinic, a communications department , a dining room, 6 shops .

• 1897 - 54 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 1908 - 70 yards, 135 residents.
• 1917 - 663 inhabitants.
• 1921 - 100 yards.
• 1940 - 260 yards, 1010 inhabitants.
• 1959 - 937 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 2004 - 370 households, 1040 inhabitants.

• Bordeaux-Rivkin Minnie (1897-1975) - Jewish poetess ^[1]
• N. Ya. Gerasimenko is one of the organizers and leaders of the Minsk underground during the Great Patriotic War. One of the streets of the city of Minsk is named after him.
• M. I. Degtyar is a Belarusian writer.
• Zaretsky Alter Isaakovich (1912-1992) - one of the leaders of the Ural Automobile Plant ^[2]
• K.F. Pushchin - commander of the 121st partisan brigade named after A.F. Bragin.
• Shulman Zinovy ​​Pinhusovich (1924-2007) - Soviet scientist. Doctor of Technical Sciences.

Transport links on the country, then the highway Luninets - Gomel. The layout consists of two parts separated by the railway: north (2 almost rectilinear streets of meridional orientation, to which short streets join from the west) and south (rectilinear streets close to latitudinal orientation, to which 4 short streets join from the south). Two-sided building, mainly wooden manor type. In 1991-92, brick houses were built for 144 apartments, which housed immigrants from places contaminated with radiation after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant .

• 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