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KOBRIN

KOBRINSKI UEZD INFORMATION including Alekseevichi, Antopol, Antopolskaya, Barashevichskaya, Barashevichi, Bezdezh, Bezdezhskaya, Bolotskaya, Cherepavchicy, Drogichin, Drogichin II, Drogichinskaya, Dreuzhilovichki, Druzhilovichskaya, Dyvin, Dyvinskaya, Eremichi, Gorodec, Gorodeckaya, Goroditz, Grushevo, Homsk, Homskaya, Iloskaya, Imeninskaya, Ivanov/o, Ivanovskaya, Osovnickaya, Kobrin, Kozischy, Kozischskaya, Krosuni, Lipec, Malorytskaya, Mokrany, Mokranskaya, Motol, Motoskaya, Novosely, Ocovcy, Ocoveckaya, Odrizhin, Odrizhinskaya, Osovnica, Ozyaty, Ozyatskaya, Peredel, Podoleskaya, Priluki, Pruskovskaya, Rogoznyanskaya, Rogozina Hvidko, Sehanovicheskaya, Stepanki, Stigovo, Strigovskaya Zvirogi, Verholeskaya, Volovel, Volvelskaya, Vorocevichi, Vorocevichskaya, Zalese, Zaleskaya, Zbirogovskaya, Zelova, Zelovskaya

Kobrinski Uezd Population by Religion in 1887
 

Religion	Kobrin			Kobrinski uezd
	men	women	men	women
Orthodox	1677	1146	59768	58336
Catholic	281	368	1707	1723
Protestant			69	66
Jewish	3038	2344	8137	8217
Mohammedan	2
Total	4998	3858	69681	68342

1887 Kobrinski Uezd Population by Social Class
 

	Title of the Estates	Kobrin town<= /TD>			Kobrinski uezd
		men	women	men	women
	Nobility	1) hereditary	93	89	329	364
2) personal		15	9	98	131
Clergy		1) Orthodox "White"	5	3	189	206
	1) Orthodox "Monkish"
	2) Catholic "White"	1		1
2) Catholic "Monkish"
3)
4)
5) Jewish	1	1	27	40
6) Moslem
Urban Estates	1) Citizens (hereditary)	2	3	9	7
	1) Citizens (personal)	50	50	30	31
	2) Merchants	3326	3224	31	53
3) Middle-class	218	230	7958	8130
4)
Rural Estates	1) State peasants	11	17	15465	15514
	2) Settlers			228	226
	3) Peasants-proprietors			39084	39088
4) town peasants
5) Free people
6)	1022	17	20	17
Military Estates	1) regular troops			755
	2) irregular troops	133	98
	3)	73	62	2368	1859
4) retired lower ranks	45	41	1784	1376
5) soldiers' children	4	5	931	1010
Foreign	VI. Foreign Subjects			195	150
	VII. People who do not belong above<= /TD>				179	140
	TOTAL	7995	3858	69681	68342

Kobrinski uezd, Grodno gubernia fairs in 1887

Kobrin: 6 Jan, Monday of "Fominoy" Week, 8 Sep

Dyvin: 25 Mar, Ascension Day, 28 Oct

Antopol: 10th week after Easter, 14 Oct

Goroditz: 31 Aug, 23 Oct

Drogichin: 2 Feb, 1st Mon after Easter, 9 May, 2nd day after Trinity Day,= 24 Jun, 1 Sep, 6 Dec

Homsk: 6 Jan, Wed after Cheese Week, Wed of the 1st week of Lent, 29 Jun,= 1 Oct, 8 No

Ivanov: 1 Jan, 23 Apr, 24 Jun, 1 Oct, 14 Oct

Kobrin town and Kobrin uezd Livestock in 1884:

Horses: 265/11403

Cattle: 573/79031

Sheep, simple: 590/55833

Sheep with thin fleece: 0/0

Pigs: 482/31662

Goats: 10/658

Donkeys/mules: 0/6

Total livestock in Kobrin: 1,920

Total livestock in Kobrin uezd: 187,399

Buildings in Kobrin in 1887: stone/wood

Habitations =96public: 4/2

- church/monastery: 3/6

- social: /3

- private: 14/1,095

Public shop: /2

Social shop:

Private shop:

Social store: 2/

Private store: 160/20

Theater:

Total: 183/1,128

Kobrin uezd 1887 statics for these zashtatnye cities, places, and posa= dy
 

Name of Settlement	1887 Population	Distance from Gubernia city=	Distance from district city=	Lat/			Long			Postal Address (P.S)
Antopol p	4043	277	30	52	12	42	57	Antopol P.S.
Gorodec p	702	268	21	52	12	42	49	Gorodec
Drogichin p.	838	301	55	52	11	43	19	Drogichin
Dyvin p	2516	267	32	51	57	42	45	Dyvin
Ivanovo p	3057	333	84	52	9	43	41	Ivanovo
Kobrin d.c.	8856	251		52	13	42	31	Krobrin
Motol p	2865	347	99	52	19	43	47	Ivanovo
Homsk p	2090	301	55	52	20	43	23	Homsk

Kobrin uezd: 1887 GRODNO camps (colony?) and Volosts with postal addresses

(volost=smallest administrative/territorial unit of pre-Revolutionary Tsarist Russia;

Guberniya Basic administrative/territorial unit of pre-Revolutionary Russia

1 desyatina = 1.0925 hektar; 1 hectar = 10,000 square meters

CAMP	Desig-nation	Name of district camps	name of places: camp flats & volosts go= vernment	Post Address	Distance from camp flat	Distance from district city	Distance from gubernia city
1st		1st camp	Kobrin Yurizdika	city: Kobrin		1	250
1st	Volost	Pruskovskaya	Cherepavchicy	city: Kobrin		7	225
1st	Volost	Rogoznyanskaya	village: Rogozina Hvidkovillage:	city: Kobrin	11	17	230
1st	Volost	Zbirogovskaya	village: Zvirogi	city: Kobrin	21	28	222
1st	Volost	Sehanovicheskaya	village: Stepanki	city: Kobrin	19	26	210
1st	Volost	Strigovskaya	village: Stigovo	city: Kobrin	14	10	210
1st	Volost	Kozischskaya	village: Kozischy	city: Kobrin	21	14	195
1st	Volost	Podoleskaya	village: Eremichi	city: Kobrin	17	10	200
1st	Volost	Zaleskaya	village: Zalese	city: Kobrin	14	7	212
2nd		2nd camp	place: Dyvin	place: Dyvin		32	267
2nd	Volost	Dyvinskaya	place: Dyvin	place: Dyvin		32	267
2nd	Volost	Mokranskaya	village: Mokrany	Malorytskaya Railway Station.	25	50	260
2nd	Volost	Verholeskaya	village: Novosely	city: Kobrin	14	21	230
2nd	Volost	Bolotskaya	village: Lipec	city: Kobrin	25	16	215
2nd	Volost	Ozyatskaya	village: Ozyaty	city: Kobrin	21	21	215
3rd		3rd camp	place: Antopol	place: Antopol		30	277
3rd	Volost	Antopolskaya	place: Antopol	place: Antopol		30	277
3rd	Volost	Volvelskaya	village: Volovel	village: Krosuni	15	45	230
3rd	Volost	Imeninskaya	village: Alekseevichi	place: Drogichin II	16	46	210
3rd	Volost	Zelovskaya	village: Zelova	place: Gorodec	5	35	212
3rd	Volost	Iloskaya	village: Grushevo	place: Gorodec	4	26	212
3rd	Volost	Gorodeckaya	place: Gorodec	place: Gorodec	8	21	268
4th		4th camp	place: Drogichin II	place: Drogichin II		55	301
4th	Volost	Drogichinskaya	place: Drogichin II	place: Drogichin II		55	301
4th	Volost	Homskaya	place: Homsk	place: Homsk	18	55	301
4th	Volost	Bezdezhskaya	village: Bezdezh	place: Homsk	18	64	215
4th	Volost	Opolskaya	village: Bezhezh	place: Homsk	20	69	218
4th	Volost	Barashevichskaya	village: Barashevichi	place: Drogichin II	11	44	218
4th	Volost	Ocoveckaya	village: Ocovcy	place: Drogichin II	15	65	255
5th		5th camp	place: Ivanovo	p, Ivanovo		85	333
5th	Volost	Ivanovskaya	place: Ivanovo	place: Ivanovo		85	333
5th	Volost	Ivanovskaya	place: Ivanovo	place: Ivanovo	14	70	250
5th	Volost	Vorocevichskaya	village: Vorocevichi	place: Ivanovo	24	85	280
5th	Volost	Odrizhinskaya	village: Odrizhin	place: Ivanovo	20	99	347
5th	Volost	Motoskaya	place: Motol	place: Ivanovo	8	80	240
5th	Volost	Druzhilovichskaya	village: Dreuzhilovichki	place: Ivanovo	21	91	250
5th	Volost	Osovnickaya	village: Osovnica	place: Ivanovo		28	295

KOBRIN UEZD 1887 surnames and occupation
 

TOWN	OCCUPATION	SURNAME	First Name	Pharmacy Number
Ivanovo	pharmacy owner	Kalesinski		#43
Peredel	physician	Klinovski	Otton Kazimirovich
Priluki	physician	Mantselevich	Lev Grigorjevich
Kobrin	pharmacy owner	Miklashevich		#42
Antopol	pharmacy owner	Podolski		#44
Dragichin	pharmacy owner	Priffer		#45
Kobrin	physician	Raigrodski	Meer Veniaminovich
Kobrin	pharmacy manager	Shidlovski	Vatslav	#42

Kobrin uezd towns:

Kobrin (Kobryn, Kovrin):

Kagan and Levin (Yiddish and Hebrew Encyclopedias of Lithuania): 7037. 

Yizkor: Sefer Kobrin, 1951.

1880 Hamelitz article mentions eighth aniiversay of agricultural settlement "Kfar Bezdiz" near Kobrin (author: Moshe Levin of Kolonie Pavlova).

birthplace of artist Elias Mendel Gossman (1898-?), immigrated US in 1911.

There are 4 yizkor books on Kobrin:

-1951, the first book was published, written in Hebrew

-1953, a second book was published in Argentina, written in Yiddish. 

-1992, the English translation of the 1951 book was published

-1996, a Spanish translation of the 1953 Yiddish book was published in Argentina.