Big Motykaly ( Belorussian. Vyalikia Matykaly ) is an agro - town in the Brest region of the Brest region of Belarus , the center of the Motykal village council . The population of 2377 people and Andrei Letashkov (2009) [1] .
| Agro-town | |
| Big Motykaly | |
|---|---|
| Belor. Vyalikia Matykaly | |
| A country |  Belarus |
| Region | Brest |
| Area | Brest |
| Village Council | Motykalsky |
| History and Geography | |
| Population | |
| Population | 2,378 people ( 2009 ) |
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Geography
The agricultural town is located 13 km northwest of the city center of Brest . Five kilometers southwest, the Western Bug River flows, along which the border with Poland passes. Around the settlement lies a network of drainage ditches with runoff to the Motykalsky Canal, and from there to the Bug. The highway R16 Brest- Vysokoe passes through Bolshoy Motykaly, local roads to Veliamovichi and Vistychi branch off from it in the agro-town. In the agro-town there is a railway station Motykaly (line Brest - Bialystok ) [2] .
Etymology
The name comes from the word "hoe" [3] .
History
The settlement has been known since the 16th century; it was a noble estate in the Beresteyskoe Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . In the middle of the 16th century it belonged to the Bekishs, from 1597 it belonged to Pan Motykalsky, in 1672 it belonged to Martin Matusevich, and in 1788 it belonged to Brest cousin Jozef Shchit-Nemirovich . In 1788, there was a post station on the road between Brest and Vysokoy [4] .
After the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795) as part of the Russian Empire, administratively belonged to the Grodno province . In 1861, peasant unrest occurred in the village, in 1866 the clan of the Vladykov owned the estate. In 1867, a public school was opened, and two years later a church was built (not preserved) at the expense of the government and villagers. In 1886 there was a volost government, a parish school, and a tavern; a brick factory and a windmill worked in Motikaly's estate. In 1886, the village totaled 214 inhabitants, in 1905 - 368 inhabitants [4] .
In World War I, it was occupied by German troops from 1915. According to the Riga Peace Treaty (1921) Motykaly became part of interwar Poland , where it belonged to the Brest district of the Polessk voivodship . In 1921, there were 32 yards and 181 inhabitants. Since 1939, as part of the BSSR [4] .
At the end of the 20th century, a new Orthodox Church of the Annunciation was built in the agro-town to replace the lost historical [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Census results
- ↑ Map sheet N-34-144 Brest . Scale: 1: 100,000. Status of the terrain for 1982. 1986 edition
- ↑ Zhuchkevich V.A. "A Brief Toponymic Dictionary of Belarus." Minsk, BSU publishing house, 1974
- ↑ 1 2 3 Garady and Belarusian Belarus: Enceklapedy ў 15 tomahs. T. 3, book. 1. Brescky Voblast / Pad Navuk. red A. І. Lakotki. - Mn .: BelEn, 2006. ISBN 985-11-0373-X .
- ↑ Big Motykals on the website globus.tut.by