Bobruisk District Historical Economic Summaries
Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director
Village of Slobodka Kostrichskaya
by Oleg Perzashkevich
Slobodka Kostrichskaya before 1917
History
Before 1793 - Slobodka Kostrichskaya was a private village in Rechitsa District of Minsk Province of Great Lithuanian Princedom.
1793-1917 - Slobodka Kostrichskaya was a village in Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Slobodka Kostrichskaya 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 Slobodka Kostrichskaya.
Vital Statistics
| Date | Jews | Non-Jews | Comments | % Total Pop. |
| 1840s | Jewish population appeared | |||
| 1897 | 82 | 657 | Both sexes | 11.1% |
| 1909 | 1044 | 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 Slobodka Kostrichskaya. As far as there were no Jewish community or considerable resident Jewish population in Slobodka Kostrichskaya, there were no special Jewish objects there.
Economic Review
Traditional activities of local population were agriculture chopping and river transport of wood, fishing. Since early times small local rivers were main roads and trade ways 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 - Slutsk was reconstructed there.
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 Bobruisk, to big villages or to the close regions of maximal peasant market activity. Slobodka Kostrichskaya was such a village.
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. Since that time the closest railway station was in Bobruisk (24 km). After in 1880s old road from Bobruisk to Slutsk was transformed into a highway, Slobodka Kostrichskaya occurred on the highway.
We know only one big business enterprises in Slobodka Kostrichskaya and the locality before 1917: BELOUS Khonon son of Tevel was timber trader in Korolets village. In 1909 there were 133 wooden houses in Slobodka Kostrichskaya.
General cultural information
At the end XIX - beg. XX century in Slobodka Kostrichskaya there as
nothing special. The closest Orthodox church was in Gorbatsevichi (8 km), post office - in
(24 km), doctor was in Bobruisk (24 km).
Copyright 1997-1998 Oleg Perzashkevich
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