Bobruisk District Economic Summaries
Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director
Village of Zakalno
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by Oleg Perzashkevich
Zakalno before 1917
History
Before 1793 - Zakalno, called also Zakolno, was a village in Novogrudok District of Novogrudok Province of Rech Pospolitaya.
1793-1917 - Zakalno was a village in Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Zakalno was a village in Bobruisk District of Minsk Empire.
1840s-1860s - Jewish population appeared.
Vital Statistics
| Date | Jews | Non-Jews | Comments | % Total Pop. |
| 2nd half of XIX century | Jewish population appeared | |||
| 1880 about 330 | Total population | less than 5% | ||
| 1909 | 966 | Total population | less than 5% | |
Jewish Life
As far as there were no Jewish community in Zakalno, there were no particular Jewish institutions or activities there.
Economic Review
Traditional activities of local population were agriculture, collecting of wild honey and chopping of wood. As far as the closest trade way Luban - Starobin was not too intensive, Zakalno stayed traditional rural settlement up to 1917.
After abolishing of Serfdom (the law prescribing 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. Zakalno, Rechen and Zabolotye 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 Zakalno, because it was an agricultural settlement and the railway station was far enough from it. That was why it took long enough time to involve local habitants in market economy environment.
Since 1873 to 1917 the closest railway station was 30 km afar from the Village in Urechye.
In 1880 there were 69 wooden houses in Zakalno.
It seems that there were no significant particular enterprises in Zakalno before 1917.
In 1909 there were 204 wooden houses in Zakalno.
General cultural information
In the end XX - beg. XX century in Zakalno there was nothing special.
 | - closest Orthodox church was 4 km afar in the village of Zabolotye; |
| - closest post office was 13 km afar in Luban; |
| - closest big enough settlement was 13 km afar (Luban). |
Copyright 1997-1998 Oleg Perzashkevich
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