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Bobruisk District Historical Economic Summaries
Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director
Village of Starye Doroghi
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by Oleg Perzashkevich and Grigory Zholnerkevich
Starye Doroghi before 1917
History
Before 1793 - Starye Doroghi was a village in Novogrudok District of Novogrudok Province of Great Lithuanian Princedom, owned by Radzivill magnate family.
1793-1917 - Starye Doroghi was a village in Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Starye Doroghi 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 Starye Doroghi.
Vital Statistics
| Date | Jews | Non-Jews | Comments | % Total Pop. |
| 1840s | Jewish population appeared | |||
| 1897 | 55 | 458 | Both sexes | 10.7% |
| 1909 | 528 | Total population | No info | |
Jewish Life
In 1840s, after they had obtained permission to live in rural area, some Jewish families moved their business to Starye Doroghi. As far as there were no Jewish community or considerable resident Jewish population in Starye Doroghi, 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 communications were reconstructed there:
 | post road Bobruisk - Starye Doroghi - Slutsk; |
| road Pukhovichi - Starye Doroghi - Luban. |
In XIX, because of development of the All-Russian Market, new types of communications appeared in the area in 1873.
| - Osipovichi - Starye Doroghi rail appendix of Libava - Romny railroad; |
| - old Bobruisk - Slutsk road was transformed into highway (1880s). |
Construction of the railroad and highways provoked new increase of development of local settlements. As far as Starye Doroghi was the last station of Osipovichi - Starye Doroghi appendix, general business and Jewish activity gradually moved to Starye Doroghi.
In 1888 there were 23 wooden houses in Starye Doroghi.
By 1900 annual turnover of Starye Doroghi rail station was 80 000 tons of wood.
Here is the list of major business and trade enterprises of Starye
Doroghi and the Subdistrict for 1902:
| Name of owner | Type of business | Religion |
| POLYAK Moisey son of Elya & VEYSBREM Elya son of Benyamin | Wood processing factory (engine - 40 h.p., 55 workers) | Jewish |
| FAYNBERG Movsha son of Ghirsh | Wood processing factory (14 workers) | Jewish |
| ZHYSLIN Borukh son of Meyer & GHELFAND Mikhel son of Dovid | Wood processing factory (engine - 70 h.p., 50 workers) in Makorichi village and timber trade business in Revan village | Jewish |
In 1909 there were 99 wooden houses in Starye Doroghi.
General cultural information
In the end XX - beg. XX century in Starye Doroghi there was a post office.
Closest synagogue and doctor were in Slutsk (45 km), closest Orthodox
church - in Novye Doroghi.
Copyright 1997-1998 Oleg Perzashkevich and Grigory
Zholnerkevich
Reproduced for the web with permission. All rights reserved. Any use of this material is
prohibited without permission from:
Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Republic of Belarus
Minsk - 07, Zhukovskogo 9-2-190
Phone: 375-17-2240560
e-mail: minskhist@yahoo.com
