Prodvino

The village of Prodvino is located 17 km south of the city of Bobruisk, Mogilev region, on the Bobruisk-Mozyr (R-31) highway and 6 km from the stop point Brozha on the Bobruisk-Rabkor railway line. To the north of Prodvino, the Brozhka River flows (a tributary of the Berezina).

It has been known since the 18th century as a village in the Rechitsa district of the Minsk Voivodeship of the Commonwealth.

The name of the village comes from the river Prodzivin (Christopher Radziwill: “Map of the Grand Duchy of 1603-1613, Amsterdam”) (Prodvin, Prodvinka,). The river has the modern name Brozka (Brozek, 1859). The village changed its name: Bokich (1859) (Bokikh). The name Bokich comes from the gentry clan Bokij (Bokiej), which received land under lease law from Tadeusz Zheligovskag, the head of Bobruisk (1790), Yes settled in the tract Leski. (Armorial of the Belarusian nobility, vol. 2, p. 92)

After the 2nd division of the Commonwealth in 1793 as part of the Russian Empire. Initially, the village was located near the confluence of the rivers Prodvinka and Brozhka. In 1798, the outskirts of Prudvino (another name for Levka) in the Bobruisk district of Minsk province, state ownership, 5 yards. The population of the outskirts is low-land gentry. In 1847, in Prodvino 18 yards in the state estate Brozh. At the end of the 19th century there was a “relocation” of Prodvino. Residents of the village move to the village of Boki, which is located across the Brozka River, a mile and a half from Prodvino. Boki village is renamed to Prodvino village. According to the census of 1897, a village in the Brozhsky volost, at the Bobruisk-Parichi postal road, 36 yards. In 1916, a public school was opened (teacher Neonila Shamovskaya). From 08/20/1924 to 01/29/1968, Prodvino is the center of the Prodvinsky Village Council of Bobruisk District. In 1925, an adult literacy school operated at a rural school. In 1932, the collective farm named after Chkalov was organized. In the Great Patriotic War, 7 villagers perished at the front. In 1986, 29 households, as part of the Frunze collective farm.

• 1798 - 26 inhabitants
• 1847 - 93 inhabitants
• 1897 - 224 inhabitants
• 1926 - 300 inhabitants
• 1986 - 50 inhabitants
• 1999 - 19 people
• 2010 - 24 people
• 2014 - 11 people

Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus, artist Ludwig Petrovich Asetskiy was born on May 9, 1929 in the village of Prodvino, Bobruisk district. He worked in the style of monumental painting, easel and book graphics, performed illustrations for books. The artist’s works are exhibited at the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Museum of Modern Fine Art in Minsk, the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, and other museums.

• Vishnevsky Village Council
• Bobruisk district

• Settlements of the Republic of Belarus
• National Cadastral Agency of the Republic of Belarus
• State Property Committee of the Republic of Belarus
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