Bobruisk District Historical Economic Summaries
Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director
Village of Domanovo
by Oleg Perzashkevich
Domanovo before 1917
History
Before 1793 - Domanovo was a village in Rechitsa District of Minsk Province of Rech Pospolitaya.
1793-1917 - Domanovo was a village in Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Domanovo was a village in Bobruisk District of Minsk Province.
1848 - after the Emperor permitted Jews to live in the rural area and to work in agriculture, Jewish agricultural colony was founded in Domanovo as Domanovo II.
Vital Statistics
| Date | Jews | Non-Jews | Comments | % Total Pop. |
| 1848 | Jewish population appeared | |||
| 1858 | 47 | No info | Both sexes | No info |
| 1898 | 144 | 21 | Both sexes | 87.3 % |
| 1909 | 190 | Total population | No info | |
Jewish Life
In 1848, after they had gotten permission to live in rural area and to work on land, some Jewish families from that area mostly rented the land from the State and moved there.
In 1898 there were 119 Jewish peasants in Domanovo, who rented for money about 114.5 hectares of land. 25 local Jews were officially busy in non-agricultural sphere: trade and business. In contrast with the some other Jewish agricultural settlements, the work on land was popular among Domanovo Jews, majority of them did it for living. In the end XIX - early XX century there was 1 praying house in Domanovo.
Economic Review
Traditional activities of local population were agriculture, chopping and river transport of wood and fishing. Since early times Berezina river was the main road and trade way for local habitants.
During Russian principality the authorities did a lot to develop the region because of military and fiscal reasons mostly. But Domanovo itself was the State-owned agricultural settlement, as many other ones in the area, and the authorities saw no reason to change or develop anything new there.
In XIX, because of development of the All-Russian Market, new types of communications appeared in the area in 1873. Construction of the railroad and highways provoked new increase of development of local settlements. But it did not effect seriously the development of Domanovo, because it was an agricultural settlement and the railway station was 8 km afar from it in Bobruisk. In non-agricultural sphere timber business was popular as usual in that area.
It seems that there were no significant particular enterprises in Domanovo before 1917.
In 1909 there were 31 wooden houses in Domanovo II.
General cultural information
In the end XX - beg. XX century there was former Roman Catholic chapel in Domanovo.
Closest synagogue, post office and doctor were 8 km afar in Bobruisk.
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