PRUZHANSKI UEZD INFORMATION: and Belovezh-Aleksanr., Bereza, Berezskaya, Bierioza, Chabahi, Chernyakovskaya, Chernyakovo, Dobuchinskaya, Gorodechnyanskaya, Gorodechna, Kartuz-Bereza, Korta, Kortanskaya, Lihoselcy, Linevo, Linovskaya, Malech, Malechskaya, Masevo, Matveevskaya, Mezhdulese-Lekovichi, Mihailovskaya, Muravevskaya, Narevka, Nikitskaya, Noski, Noskovskaya, Ogorodniki, Pruzhany, Revyatichskaya, Revyatichi, Rudniki, Rudnikskaya, Selec, Seleckaya, Sheni, Shereshevo, Shereshevskaya, Smolany, Starunovskaya, Suhopol, Suhopolskaya, Tevli, Velikoselskaya, Zastava
Pruzhany Uezd Population by
Religion in 1887
| Religion | Pruzhany | Pruzhanski uezd | ||||
| men | women | men | women | |||
| Orthodox | 1022 | 1036 | 44860 | 42877 | ||
| Catholic | 232 | 276 | 7027 | 6772 | ||
| Protestant | 2 | 3 | 195 | 215 | ||
| Jewish | 2761 | 2803 | 3863 | 4217 | ||
| Mohammedan | 4 | 7 | ||||
| Total | 4017 | 4124 | 55949 | 54088 | ||
1887 Pruzhany Uezd Population
by Social Class
| Title of the Estates | Pruzhany | Pruzhanski uezd | ||||
| men | women | men | women | |||
| Nobility | 1) hereditary | 19 | 24 | 269 | 288 | |
| 2) personal | 48 | 43 | 19 | 21 | ||
| Clergy | 1) Orthodox "White" | 13 | 6 | 91 | 111 | |
| 1) Orthodox "Monkish" | ||||||
| 2) Catholic "White" | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 2) Catholic "Monkish" | ||||||
| 3) | ||||||
| 4) | ||||||
| 5) Jewish | 2 | 2 | 6 | 16 | ||
| 6) Moslem | ||||||
| Urban Estates | 1) Citizens (hereditary) | 9 | 7 | |||
| 1) Citizens (personal) | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | ||
| 2) Merchants | 48 | 23 | 24 | |||
| 3) Middle-class | 3691 | 3889 | 4333 | 4640 | ||
| 4) | 29 | 7 | ||||
| Rural Estates | 1) State peasants | 12 | 9 | 17895 | 16455 | |
| 2) Settlers | 2 | 6 | 154 | 162 | ||
| 3) Peasants-proprietors | 4 | 60 | 29328 | 29150 | ||
| 4) town peasants | ||||||
| 5) Free people | ||||||
| 6) | ||||||
| Military Estates | 1) regular troops | 20 | 3 | |||
| 2) irregular troops | ||||||
| 3) | 61 | 35 | 1929 | 1596 | ||
| 4) retired lower ranks | 57 | 23 | 1439 | 1162 | ||
| 5) soldiers' children | 8 | 14 | 380 | 398 | ||
| Foreign | VI. Foreign Subjects | 1 | 56 | 43 | ||
| VII. People who do not belong above | 4 | 7 | ||||
| TOTAL | 4017 | 4124 | 55949 | 54088 | ||
Pruzhanski uezd, Grodno gubernia fairs in 1887
Pruzhany: Trinity Day, Fri of 10th week after Easter, 6 Aug, 14 Oct, 28 Oct
Bierioza: 1 Jan, Thursday of Shrovetide, Thursday of Holy Week, 23 Apr, 13 May, Orthodox
Church Reunification Day, St. Jan the Godfather's Day, 8 Sep, 28 Oct
Malech: 2 Feb, every Mon of Lent, Mon of "Fominoy" Week, Tues after Trinity Day, 29 Jun,
1 Sep, 8 Nov, 23 Nov
Pruzhany town and Pruzhanski uezd Livestock in 1884:
Horses: 253/14864
Cattle: 674/46152
Sheep, simple: 551/45,685
Sheep with thin fleece: 0/24,757
Pigs: 607/34,373
Goats: 0/70
Donkeys/mules: 0/1
Total livestock in Pruzhany: 2,085
Total livestock in Pruzhanski uezd: 153,915
Buildings in Pruzhany in 1887: stone/wood
Habitations 96 public: 2/
- church/monastery: 2/3
- social: 2/10
- private: 6/932
Public shop:
Social shop:
Private shop: /4
Social store:
Private store: 54/55
Theater:
Total: 66/1,004
Pruzhany uezd 1887 statistics
for these zashtatnye cities, places, and posady
| Name of Settlement | 1887 Population | Distance from Gubernia city | Distance from district city | Lat/ | Long | Postal Address (P.S) | ||||
| Bereza p | 2625 | 292 | 35 | 52 | 32 | 42 | 58 | Kart-Berez | ||
| Malech p | 675 | 270 | 18 | 52 | 29 | 42 | 52 | Linevo | ||
| Narevka p | 621 | 149 | 64 | 52 | 50 | 41 | 55 | Narevka | ||
| Pruzhany d.c. | 8141 | 274 | 52 | 33 | 42 | 37 | Pruzhany | |||
| Selec p | 1674 | 295 | 28 | 52 | 35 | 43 | 2 | Selec | ||
| Shereshevo p | 4427 | 288 | 14 | 52 | 33 | 42 | 23 | Shereshevo | ||
PRUZHANY uezd 1887 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 | place: Selec | Kart.-Bereza | 28 | 295 | ||
| 1st | Volost | Seleckaya | place: Selec | Kart.-Bereza | 16 | 15 | 165 |
| 1st | Volost | Noskovskaya | village: Noski | city: Pruzhany | 28 | 14 | 155 |
| 1st | Volost | Rudnikskaya | village: Rudniki | city: Pruzhany | 40 | 20 | 140 |
| 1st | Volost | Kortanskaya | village: Korta | city: Pruzhany | 40 | 14 | 156 |
| 1st | Volost | Velikselskaya | village: Velikosel. / village: Lihoselcy= | city: Pruzhany | 30 | 5 | 165 |
| 1st | Volost | Dobuchinskaya | village: Ogorodniki | city: Pruzhany | 21 | 8 | 175 |
| 1st | Volost | Nikitskaya | village: Smolany | city: Pruzhany | 35 | 292 | |
| 2nd | 2nd camp | place: Katuz-Berez | place: Kartuz-Berez | 35 | 292 | ||
| 2nd | Volost | Berezskaya | place: Katuz-Berez | place: Kartuz-Berez | 22 | 18 | 270 |
| 2nd | Volost | Malechskaya | place: Malech | Linevo | 14 | 30 | 190 |
| 2nd | Volost | Revyatichskaya | village: Revyatichi | place: Kartuz-Berez | 22 | 38 | 200 |
| 2nd | Volost | Chernyakovskaya | village: Chernyakovo | place: Kartuz-Berez | 16 | 40 | 200 |
| 2nd | Volost | Matveevskaya | village: Mezhdulese-Lekovichi | place: Kartuz-Berez | 25 | 16 | 185 |
| 3rd | 3rd camp | place: Shereshevo | place: Shereshevo | 14 | 288 | ||
| 3rd | Volost | Shereshevskaya | place: Shereshevo | place: Shereshevo | 14 | 288 | |
| 3rd | Volost | Mihailovskaya | village: Sheni | city: Pruzhany | 15 | 6 | 175 |
| 3rd | Volost | Linovskaya | village: Linovo | village: Linovo | 22 | 10 | 180 |
| 3rd | Volost | Gorodechnyanskaya | village: Gorodechna | Tevli Railway Station. | 18 | 17 | 185 |
| 3rd | Volost | Starunovskaya | Chabahi | Tevli Railway Station. | 16 | 28 | 180 |
| 3rd | Volost | Muravevskaya | village: Ogorodniki | Tevli Railway Station. | 30 | 36 | 200 |
| 4th | 4th camp | place: Narevka | place: Narevka | 64 | 149 | ||
| 4th | Volost | Belovezh-Aleksanr. | village: Zastava | place: Shereshevo | 20 | 45 | 160 |
| 4th | Volost | Masevskaya | village: Masevo | place: Shereshevo | 16 | 45 | 130 |
| 4th | Volost | Suhopolskaya | village: Suhopol | place: Shereshevo | 36 | 24 | 145 |
Pruzhany uezd 1887 Surnames
and occupations
| TOWN | 1887? OCCUPATION | SURNAME | First Name | Pharmacy Number |
| Shereshevo | pharmacy owner | Kadevich | #48 | |
| Shereshevo | pharmacy manager | Krasinski | #48 | |
| Kartuz-Bereza | physician | Okolov | Tsezari Selvestrovich | |
| Pruzhany | physician | Patsevich | Avgustin Konstantinovich | |
| Bereza | pharmacy owner | Sabotski | #47 | |
| Shereshevo | physician | Vladislavovich | Gerih | |
| Pruzhany | pharmacy owner | Yurkovski | Anton | #46 |
Pruzhani uezd towns:
Kartuz Bereza (Bereza Kartuska, K= artuz Brezah, Brezah):
Kagan and Levin (Yiddish and Hebrew Encyclopedias of Lithuania): 7352.
Yizkor: Pinkas M'Chamesh Kehilot, 1958.
birthplace of Alter Brody (1895-?), Yiddish poet and dramatist.
Narevka (Narewka Mala),
Kagan and Levin (Yiddish and Hebrew Encyclopedias of Lithuania) 5233.
1900 rabbi: Feivel Grinberg.
Moletch (Malecz):
Kagan and Levin (Yiddish and Hebrew Encyclopedias of Lithuania) 4672.
yizkor: Pinkas M'chamesh Kehilot, 1958.
1920 NY rabbinical war relief acknowledged by David Tevel Deinovski.
Pruzhany (Pruzana, Pruzhani):
Kagan and Levin (Yiddish and Hebrew Encyclopedias of Lithuania) 6724.
yizkor: Pinkas M'chamesh Kehilot, 1958.
EJ article.
1886 Hamelitz letter from Moshe
Nisan Yanovski.