Before 1793 - Kozlovichi was a village in
Rechitsa District of Minsk Province of Rech Pospolitaya.
1793-1917 - Kozlovichi was a village in
Russian Empire.
Since 1801 - Kozlovichi was a village in
Bobruisk District of Minsk Province.
1844 - after the Emperor permitted Jews to live in
the rural area and to work in agriculture, Jewish agricultural colony was
founded in Kozlovichi as Kozlovichi II.
Vital Statistics
Date
Jews
Non-Jews
Comments
% Total Pop.
1844
Jewish population appeared
1858
184
No info
Both sexes
No info
1898
320
96
Both sexes
76.9 %
1909
451
Total population
No info
Jewish Life
In
1844, after they obtained permission to live in rural area and to work on land,
some Jewish families from that area mostly rented the land from the State and
moved there.
In
1898 there were 301 Jewish peasants in Kozlovichi, who rented for money about 328
hectares of land. 19 local Jews were officially busy in non-agricultural sphere:
trade and business. In contrast with the other Jewish agricultural settlements,
the work on land was popular among Kozlovichi Jews, majority of them did it for
living.
In
the end XIX - early XX century there were 2 praying houses in Kozlovichi.
Economic
Review
Traditional
activities of local population were agriculture, chopping of wood and fishing
in the local small influxes of Ptych river. That settlement was on the low
importance road from Glusk to Brozha.
During
Russian principality the authorities did a lot to develop the region because of
military and fiscal reasons mostly. But Kozlovichi itself was a State-owned
agricultural settlement, as many other ones in the area, and the authorities
saw no reason to change or develop anything new there.
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 effect seriously the development of Kozlovichi, because it was an
agricultural settlement and the railway station was far from it. But local Jews
succeeded in agriculture, especially in cattle growing and there were many
wealthy Jewish households in Kozlovichi. In non-agricultural sphere timber
business was popular as usual in that area.
Since
1873 to 1917 the closest railway station was 36 km afar from the Village in Bobruisk. It seems that there were no
significant particular enterprises in Kozlovichi before 1917.
In
1909 there were 69 wooden houses in Kozlovichi II.
General cultural
information
At
the end XIX - beg. XX century in Kozlovichi there was nothing special.
-
closest synagogue was 15 km afar in Glusk;
-
closest post office was 15 km afar in Glusk;
-
closest big enough settlement was 15 km afar (Glusk).
