Chirkovichi (Svetlogorsk district)

Location

10 km northwest of Svetlogorsk , 10 km from the railway station Svetlogorsk-on-Berezina (on the Zhlobin - Kalinkovichi line ), 120 km from Gomel .

Hydrography

On the Chirka River (a tributary of the Zherdyanka River ).

On the highway Svetlogorsk - Parichi . The layout consists of a rectilinear latitudinal street, to the center of which a lane joins from the south, and in the east it is intersected by a short street. In the north, parallel to the main is a short straight street. The building is wooden, manor type.

According to written sources, it has been known since the 16th century as a village in the Rechitsa district of the Minsk Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , a grand-ducal property. According to the inventory of the Bobruisk headman of 1639, the village has 26 smokes of which 15 are populated, 40 are swaths of land, of which 25 are empty.

After the 2nd division of the Commonwealth (1793) as part of the Russian Empire . In 1840, at the expense of the landowner P.P. Pushchin, instead of the dilapidated new wooden building, the Peter and Paul Church was built (metric books and parish lists from 1799 were kept in its archive). The publication "Picturesque Russia" is referred to as a place . In 1885, 2 churches, a school. According to the census of 1897, a bread store, a tavern operated. In 1908, a feldsher’s point, in the Parich parish of Bobruisk district of Minsk province .

From August 20, 1924, the center of the Chirkovichsky Village Council of Parichsky , from July 29, 1961 the Svetlogorsk districts of the Bobruisk (until July 26, 1930) district, from February 20, 1938 to Polesskaya , from January 8, 1954 to the Gomel regions.

In 1929 the collective farm “New World” was organized, the forge worked. During the Great Patriotic War, the invaders partially burned the village. In November 1943, units of the 65th Army liberated the village, but in December, having concentrated large forces on this site, the Nazis launched an offensive and the Soviet troops were forced to retreat. The 194th Infantry Division of the 48th Army came to the rescue, and the German offensive was stopped. During the fighting, 2,275 Soviet soldiers died (buried on the southern outskirts). According to the 1959 census, the center of KSUP "Berezina". The sewing workshop, forestry, secondary and music schools, the House of Culture, a library, a kindergarten, a feldsher-midwife station, a post office , a communications club, a shop were located.

The structure of the Chirkovichi Village Council included (currently not existing)) until 1939, the villages of Aleksandrovka, Kunnoye and Solomenka, Orekhovka, Vezhka, Dubrova, Za Brod, Zarozhye, Zvezda, Zayvanev Zakletnoye, Kizhin, Horse Side, Kromeny, Krasnaya, Korma . On January 14, 1944, the invaders burned the village of Ala together with the inhabitants (34 courtyards, 168 people, were not reborn, immortalized in the Khatyn memorial complex). The village of Starina has not existed since 1967, since 1975 the village of Svetoch (until 1964 - Kakal, entered the borders of Svetlogorsk) and since 1995 - the Nikolaevka farm.

Strength

• 2004 - 434 households, 1101 residents.

Dynamics

• 1639 - 26 smokes.
• 1885 - 92 yards, 611 residents.
• 1897 - 149 households, 858 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 1908 - 165 yards, 999 inhabitants.
• 1917 - 208 yards of 1,194 residents.
• 1925 - 220 yards.
• 1959 - 883 inhabitants (according to the census).
• 2004 - 434 households, 1101 residents.

• P. M. Stefanovsky - Hero of the Soviet Union , Major General of Aviation.

• City villages of Belarus
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• 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