Bobruisk District Historical Economic Summaries

Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director

Village of Lubonichi

by Oleg Perzashkevich

Lubonichi before 1917

History

XVI century - Lubonichi was founded as a shtetle in Rechitsa District of Minsk Province of Great Lithuanian Princedom. Initially it was a possessionof Polish King and Great Lithuanian Prince.

Early - mid. XVII century - Jewish population appeared in Lubonichi.

1771-1775 - Lubonichi was a possession of Lestsy noble family.

1775-1917 - Lubonichi was a possession of Prushanovsky noble family.

Since 1793 - Lubonichi was in Russian Empire.

1801-1917 - Lubonichi was a shtetle in Bobruisk District of Minsk Province.

1820s - the owner and local believers built an Orthodox church in wood.

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Jewish Life

Since the 2nd half of the XIXth century Jewish community of Lubonichi had their own mayor. That mayor was elected by local Jews. In 1896 FARBER Borukh son of Yudko was the mayor.

Traditional activities of local Jewish population were trade with timber, grain, vodka and mushrooms. During Russian principality vodka trade was under state hard control and became less popular among Jewish businessmen. But the authorities did a lot to develop the region because of military and fiscal reasons mostly. First of all, old road Bobruisk - Lubonichi - Berezino was reconstructed.

In XIX, because of development of the All-Russian Market, new types of communications appeared in the area in 1873. Construction of the railroad provoked new increase of the development of the region. But it did not rapidly effect development of Lubonichi, because the closest railway station was 21 km afar in Bobruisk. Timber, grain and flour stayed the most popular goods among local Jews.

In 1882 there were 39 wooden houses in Lubonichi.

In the early XX century the major business enterprise was the flour mill. The owner was FARBER (the mayor).

In 1909 in Lubonichi there were 150 wooden houses.

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