Bobruisk District Historical Economic Summaries
Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director
Village of Lyaskovichi
Lyaskovichi before 1917
History
Before 1793 - Lyaskovichi was a private village in Novogrudok District of Novogrudok Province of Great Lithuanian Princedom.
1793-1917 - Lyaskovichi was a village in Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Lyaskovichi was a private village in Bobruisk District of Minsk Empire.
1840s - after the Emperor permitted Jews to live in the rural area, Jewish population appeared in Lyaskovichi.
Vital Statistics
| Date | Jews | Non-Jews | Comments | % Total Pop. |
| 1840s | Jewish population appeared | |||
| 1897 | 62 | 433 | Both sexes | 12.5% |
| 1909 | 537 | Total population | No info | |
Jewish Life
In 1840s, after obtaining permission to live in rural area, some Jewish families moved their business to Lyaskovichi. As far as there were no Jewish community or considerable resident Jewish population in Lyaskovichi, there were no special Jewish objects there.
Economic Review
Traditional activities of local population were agriculture and chopping of wood.
During Russian principality the authorities did a lot to develop the region because of military and fiscal reasons mostly. First of all, old road Lyaskovichi - Kosarichi was reconstructed there.
After the abolishing of Serfdom (the law which prescribed personal dependence of peasants from their landlords) in 1861, local peasants became more active in non-agricultural sphere, and local Jews (had obtained permission to live in rural area in the early 1830s-40s) moved their businesses (mainly taverns and trinket stores), mostly from the shtetles of Luban and Urechye, to big villages or to the regions of maximal peasants market activity. Lyaskovichi, Zabolotye and Slavkovichi formed such a region.
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 rapidly effect the development of Lyaskovichi, because it was an agricultural settlement and the railway station was far from it. That was why it took long enough time to involve local inhabitants in market economy environment. Timber remained the most popular good.
Since 1873 the closest to Lyaskovichi rail station was in Bobruisk (79 km).
In 1882 there were 48 wooden houses in Lyaskovichi.
Here is the list of major business and trade enterprises of Lyaskovichi
and the Subdistrict for 1902:
| Name of owner | Type of business | Religion |
| NORKIN Shmuyla son of Khaym | Timber trade | Jewish |
| ETKIN Mordukh son of Movsha | Shovel trade store (Slavkovichi village) | Jewish |
In 1909 there were 83 wooden houses in Lyaskovichi.
General cultural information
In the end XX - beg. XX century in Lyaskovichi there were: - Orthodox church; - primary public school; - post office.
Closest doctor was in Glusk (35 km).
Copyright 1997-1998 Oleg Perzashkevich
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