Molyatichi

The settlement has been known from written sources since 1639 as the village of Moletichi , there was a church, the population - 13 yards and 28 inhabitants.

During the Northern War (1700-1721), at the end of August 1708, near the village on the Chernaya Natopa River, the Russian army under the command of Mikhail Golitsin defeated the vanguard of the Swedish army. In the West, this event is known as the Battle of Molyatichi . This was the first victory of the Russian troops over the Swedes, and a month later the Swedes were defeated near Lesnaya ^[1] .

After the first division of the Commonwealth, the center became part of the Russian Empire , became the center of the volost of the Cherikovsky district of the Mogilev province . The settlement belonged to the bishop, then to Metropolitan Stanislav Bogush-Sestrentsevich , then to the widow of Major General Bogushevsky. Bogush-Sestrentsevich, at his own expense, built the church of St. Stanislav in the village in the form of a small copy of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome , later in 1835 the church was transferred to the Orthodox Church. In a statistical description of the province of 1784, the settlement is already mentioned as a place. In the Patriotic War of 1812, the place was partially burned. In 1879, a school (public school) was opened, in which in 1889 55 boys and 2 girls studied. Some of the villagers were engaged in tailoring. Every year on June 29 on the day of Saints Peter and Paul , a fair was held in the town ^[1] .

During the first Russian revolution in 1905, clashes with the police were noted. In 1918, a party cell and a combo were created . On the basis of the pre-revolutionary, a second-level working school was opened in the village. The house of the local landowner Polonsky was given over to the People’s House, and then under the school. In July 1918, a kindergarten was opened. An agricultural credit partnership was established on February 21, 1921 , and a cooperative partnership on November 2, 1923 . In 1924, there were 844 residents in the town and village. In 1925, communications offices and a veterinary station began their work. In the early 1930s, the collective farms “New Life” (in 1932 united 32 households) and “Red Plowman” (in 1932 combined 31 households) were organized. In 1935, they worked - equestrian grits (founded back in 1923), 3 forges, 2 wool-cutters, a sewing artel. In 1936, a selmag was built. In 1940, there were 502 residents in the village. From July 1941 to October 1, 1943 it was occupied by Nazi invaders . In 1942, the Germans tortured 75 local residents, and in September 1943 the village was burned and 210 people were destroyed. It was liberated on October 1, 1943 by the troops of the 50th Army of the Bryansk Front . After the war it was rebuilt ^[1] .

• Monument to fellow countrymen. Located in the square. It is established in memory of 330 compatriots of the villages of the Molyatichsky village council who died in the Great Patriotic War . In 1975, a monument was erected - a sculpture of a warrior with a child, next to a board with the names of the dead.

• Molyatichsky Village Council
• Krichevsky district
• The Battle of Good (The Battle of Molatyachi)

• . Pamyatsk: Gistoryka-dakumentalnaya chronika Krychaўskaga raёna. - Maladzechna: Drukarnya "Peramoga", 2004. - 711 p. - ISBN 985-6541-42-5 .

• The Molyatichsky Village Council of Deputies on the website of the Krichevsky District Executive Committee.
• The administrative-territorial division of the Krichevsky district on the website of the Krichevsky district executive committee.
• "Cold Shelter" - an article on the website of the newspaper " Sovetskaya Belorussia " (02/12/2009).
• "The village of Molyatichi (Mogilev region): in the XVIII century, they built an exact copy of the Roman Cathedral of St. Peter" - on the website of the STV channel (04/26/2013).
• “Molyatichi: They work. Well done! And you can do without funds ” - on the website belhist.ru (01/08/2014).