Bobruisk District Economic Summaries
Provided by
The Minsk Historical Genealogy Group
Oleg Perzashkevich, Director
Village of Zabolotye
by Oleg Perzashkevich
Zabolotye before 1917
History
Before 1793 - Zabolotye was a private village in Novogrudok District of Novogrudok Province of Great Lithuanian Princedom.
1793-1917 - Zabolotye was a village in Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Zabolotye 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 Zabolotye.
Vital Statistics
| Date | Jews | Non-Jews | Comments | % Total Pop. |
| 1840s | Jewish population appeared | |||
| 1897 | 55 | 484 | Both sexes | 10.2% |
| 1909 | 566 | 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 Zabolotye. As far as there were no Jewish community or considerable resident Jewish population in Zabolotye, 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 Luban - 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 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. The closest to Zabolotye rail station was in Urechye (34 km).
We know one big business enterprise in Zabolotye for 1902: ZELDOVICH Nokhim son of Berka was the timber trader.
In 1909 there were 83 wooden houses in Zabolotye.
General cultural information
In the end XX - beg. XX century in Zabolotye there were:
 | - Orthodox church; |
| - primary public school. |
Closest post office was in Luban (9 km), closest doctor was in Slutsk
(50 km).
Copyright 1997-1998 Oleg Perzashkevich
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