Memory of Kalinkovichsky district

“Памяць : Калінкавіцкі раен: Гіст. дак.хронікі гарадоў і раенаў Беларусі” Рэд. склад. Феранц В.Р.; Рэдкал.: Піліпец В.І.(старшыня каміс.) і інш.; Маст. Жакевіч Э.Э”, Мінск : Ураджай, 1999.

“Memory: Kalinkovichsky district: Historical documentary chronicles the cities and regions of Belarus” Edited and compiled by Ferants VR; Editorial Board.: Pylypets VI (Chairman), and others; Artist Zhakevich E.E “Minsk: Harvest, 1999.

ISBN: 985-04-0410-8

Title Index 1 Index 2 Index 3

Excerpted Sections

p. 182 - A patriot, an explorer, a scientist

Discussion about Source

This “memory” book appears to have first-hand accounts of life in Yurevichi. It is cited in several newspaper and online sources.

Table of Contents

  1. A word to the Reader … 17
    1. Kalinkovichi district settlements … 19
    2. The map of the district … 20
  2. The land of our ancestry … 23
    1. Primitive men in Yuravichi … 23
    2. From the chronicle … 36
    3. Since Kievan Russian till Grand Dutchy of Lithuanina … 37
    4. As a member of Grand Dutchy of Lithuania … 44
    5. As a member of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …48
    6. According to records … 53
    7. Closing Yuravichi Roman-Catholic church … 64
    8. As a member of Russian Empire … 67
    9. According to records … 72
    10. At the turn of the century … 82
    11. The vortex of a new century … 96
    12. Troubled 1903 … 103
    13. Belarussian Belinsky … 105
    14. The war near-by … 107
    15. From the chronicle … 108
  3. The time of struggle and trial … 109
    1. German boot footprint … 112
    2. Partisans activity … 117
    3. Information from Navy and State Military Archives documents … 118
    4. Strakopitovsky munity … 121
    5. Frights around the land … 125
    6. A reckless scheme failure … 139
    7. Bulak-Balahovich at Kalinkovichi lands … 141
    8. From the chronicle … 146
    9. To the new life … 148
    10. For you, my army … 150
    11. Life is but a span … 152
    12. Documents infrotmation …152
    13. Kalinkovichi as a town … 160
    14. Youth spent in battles … 162
    15. The collectivization course … 163
    16. New life sprouts … 165
    17. A red flag in Yuravichi … 166
    18. In the vanguard of socialist reformations … 170
    19. Campaign against illiteracy … 171
    20. Life rebuilding … 172
    21. From the Mozyr Kolkhoznik newspaper … 175
    22. Melej from near Prague … 175
    23. At the Yuravichi market … 176
    24. Class omnicide … 179
    25. Being public enemy … 179
    26. A kulak family …
    27. Public enemy number 3731 … 181
    28. A patriot, an explorer, a scientist … 182
  4. Victims of Stalin presecutions … 184
  5. The Great Patriotic War … 193
  6. Clouds under the land … 193
    1. A bloody track of the war … 195
    2. A troubled summer … 196
    3. From the first day of war … 197
    4. First trials … 198
    5. Living in captivity … 199
    6. Yuravichi in dusk … 202
    7. Lozki village trouble … 203
    8. In Germany … 204
    9. Enemy made us to take rifles … 205
    10. According to the acts of State Extraordinary Commission … 206
    11. Azaricsky death camp … 209
  7. The members of anti-fascists movement and their families who took part in the struggle. Victims of Nazi terror … 224
  8. Fire of struggle … 246
    1. In the unconquerable town … 246
    2. Documents information … 250
    3. All to a man rase … 254
    4. Domanovichi patriots … 256
    5. The fight at the railroad … 264
    6. Reconnaissance is afoot … 265
    7. From the diary of Kostya Yarmilov … 266
    8. One of Smygnarovcsy … 270
    9. Not afraid of enemy … 273
    10. Zelyanocskie partisans … 274
    11. The memory remains … 274
    12. On a ferry … 276
    13. Manliness of the teacher … 277
  9. At partisans paths … 277
  10. Rural and town underground committies. Partisans units and detachments … 283
    1. The fire of struggle flames up … 287
    2. Destroying enemy garrisons … 294
    3. Documents information … 295
    4. Partisan routine … 297
    5. Azaricsky garrison defeat … 299
    6. A 16-year-old partisan … 299
    7. Gorachovi partisan family … 300
    8. Losing comrades-in-arms … 301
    9. The whole family fought … 302
    10. Documents information … 303
    11. Fellow-fighters … 313
    12. Recollections remain … 314
    13. At the last days of occupation … 315
  11. The victory with tears in eyes … 317
    1. Going Kalinkovichiward … 321
    2. Ahead Kalinkovichi … 322
    3. A victorious flag over the town … 322
    4. Tank corps in battles … 331
    5. For the liberation of Azarichi … 334
    6. …That fight to remember … 335
    7. In the sky above Kalinkovichi … 338
    8. Anatoly Anan'ev war path … 340
    9. Our sister Yulia Drunina … 342
    10. The Heroes of Soviet Union who died during the district liberation and were burried on its territory or in Kalinkovichi … 343
    11. When snow thawed… … 348
    12. ”…I loved you and my motherland” … 349
    13. The citizen to be proud of … 351
    14. From Kalinkovichi to Berlin … 351
    15. In the liberated town … 353
  12. The soldiers of Red Army who were burried in the territory of Kalinkovichi district … 357
    1. Getting good name in battles … 531
    2. The commander of regiment … 531
    3. The feat on Pina … 531
    4. Heroes from Kolbasichi village … 532
    5. On the way of trials … 533
    6. On the way to Berlin … 534
    7. Forever in line … 535
    8. Named after countrymen … 536
    9. A verse from the front … 537
    10. Soldier's medal … 537
    11. The feat of the artilleryman … 537
    12. Children of war … 538
    13. On the pages of the war-time newspaper “Za Kommunizm” … 538
    14. A feat is not forgotten … 540
  13. The soldiers of Red Army and partisans - countrymen who died or disappeared without a trace during the Great Patriotic War … 541
    1. Peace time … 698
    2. The documents from Mozyr State Archieve … 702
    3. The light of education … 705
    4. The house that replaced a father's house … 706
    5. The district is reading and listening … 707
    6. On the pages of the local newspaper “Za Bolshevitskie Tempi” … 709
  14. Distinguished in work … 713
    1. In the homeland … 713
    2. He was elected by time … 714
    3. A work-tempered man … 714
    4. The republic honoured workers … 715
    5. Kalinkovichi honoured citizens … 717
    6. Kalinkovichi district mothers-heroins … 718
    7. Kalinkovchi land heard it … 718
    8. Basalaga brothers … 720
    9. Yuravichi routes … 721
    10. On the pages of the local newspaper “Za Bolshevitskie Tempi … 722
  15. The soldiers of Soviet Army who died in Afghanistan … 725
    1. From the chronicle … 725
    2. With a word, with a kick, with a song … 726
    3. He devoted a verse and his life to the homeland … 726
    4. When encyclopaedias lie … 727
    5. Coming back in Padolskaya street … 730
    6. Inspired by visiting Kalinkovichi … 731
    7. In Yuravichi … 735
    8. Native land on canvas … 736
    9. From deep wells … 738
    10. Living life singing … 738
    11. Catholic and Othodox churches and chapels … 739
    12. Burnt by the fire of war … 739
    13. In Lipas at the museum … 740
    14. Azaritsy markets … 741
    15. The trace of Chernobyl disaster … 741
    16. On the pages of the local newspaper “Za kommunizm” … 743
  16. Material and cultural heritage … 744
    1. …We have heritage … 744
    2. Humor festivals in Avtsykovsk … 751
    3. Zabrodtsy and Zapolcsy dwellers … 752
    4. From “The ethnography of Belarus” … 759
    5. A miracle above Pripyat … 760
    6. A country estate in Lipov … 762
    7. Perpetuated in names … 763
    8. The land's history lies in toponyms … 764
    9. Home grounds names … 765
    10. From the history of district settlements … 766