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Bobruisk District Historical Economic Summaries
Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director
Village of Novye Doroghi
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by Oleg Perzashkevich
Novye Doroghi before 1917
History
Before 1793 - Novye Doroghi was a private village in Novogrudok District of Novogrudok Province of Great Lithuanian Princedom on the bank of Zheleznitsa river.
1784 - Brest Union Orthodox church was built in Novye Doroghi.
1793-1917 - Novye Doroghi was a village in Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Novye Doroghi was a private village in Bobruisk District of Minsk Empire.
Late 1830s - Novye Doroghi Brest Union Orthodox church was resanctified into Russian Orthodoxy.
1840s - after the Emperor permitted Jews to live in the rural area, Jewish population appeared in Novye Doroghi.
Vital Statistics
| Date | Jews | Non-Jews | Comments | % Total Pop. |
| 1840s | Jewish population appeared | |||
| 1897 | 122 | 729 | Both sexes | 14.3% |
| 1909 | 762 | Total population | No info | |
Jewish Life
In 1840s, after obtaining permission to live in rural area, some Jewish families moved their business to Novye Doroghi. As far as there were no Jewish community or considerable resident Jewish population in Novye Doroghi, there were no special Jewish objects there.
Economic Review
Traditional activities of local population were agriculture, chopping of wood and fishing. Since early time Zheleznitsa river was the trade way and the road for local inhabitants.
During Russian principality the authorities did a lot to develop the region because of military and fiscal reasons mostly. First of all, old road Bobruisk - Starye Doroghi - Slutsk was reconstructed there.
In XIX, because of development of the All-Russian Market, new types of communications appeared in the area in 1873.
 | - Starye Doroghi rail station of Libava - Romny railroad appendix (10 km); |
| - old Bobruisk - Slutsk road was transformed into highway (1880s). |
Construction of the railroad and highways provoked new increase of development of local settlements. But as far as Starye Doroghi was close enough and there were good communications between Starye Doroghi and Novye Doroghi, Jewish activity gradually moved to Starye Doroghi.
We know two big business enterprises in Novye Doroghi and the locality for 1902: GUREVICH Itsko son of Dona owned a wood processing factory (engine - 15 h.p., 17 workers) in Novye Doroghi and POLYAK Moisey son of Elya & VEYSBREM Elya son of Benyamin owned wood processing factory (engine - 40 h.p., 33 workers) in Falichi.
In 1909 there were 131 wooden houses in Novye Doroghi.
General cultural information
In the end XX - beg. XX century in Novye Doroghi there was Orthodox (former Brest Union) church.
Closest synagogue and doctor were in Glusk (45 km), closest post office
was in Starye Doroghi.
Copyright 1997-1998 Oleg Perzashkevich
Reproduced for the web with permission. All rights reserved. Any use of this material is
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Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Republic of Belarus
Minsk - 07, Zhukovskogo 9-2-190
Phone: 375-17-2240560
e-mail: minskhist@yahoo.com
