BASIC FACTS - PRUZHANY
1930 POLISH BUSINESS GUIDE Pruzhany is the main
town of the district, seat of the city court. The court of law is in Grodno.
There were 6332 inhabitants in 1930.
Train station is 12 km away at Oranczyce, the Zabinka-Baranowicze
narrow-gauge line and the Pruzana-Oranczyce line. State and independent authorities were: Sheriff, District
police commander, Bureau of duties and taxes, Treasurer’s office, Rural
district office, Committee of colonization and Commission of expropriation
for the district, Management of roads, Inspection of education,
Administration of state forests, Town government, District office . Churches
and Schools: 1 Catholic church, 2 Orthodox churches, 1 synagogue, State
gymnasium, Normal school for teachers. Institutions: District hospital,
District health fund. Professional associations and corporations: Merchants’
Association, Artisans’ Association, Section of the local Landowners’
Association, Farmers’ Association, and Polish Primary School Teachers’
Association. Fairs: 15/10, 30/10 and the day after old style Pentecost for
agricultural products, beasts and cooperage. Brewery, tannery, mills District health fund. Professional associations and corporations: Merchants’ Association,
Artisans’ Association, Section of the local Landowners’ Association, Farmers’
Association, and Polish Primary School Teachers’ Association. Region (regional office is
in the town of Pruzhany) and including: Bialosowszczyzna, Lachy, Buzuny,
Slonimce, Kruhle, Szubicze. Church in Kuplin. 1895 RUSSIAN BUSINESS GUIDE Pruzhany is the center of uyezd, is 984 versta (1
versta = 1,0668 kilometers) from St. Petersburg, is 908 versta from Moscow
and is 188 versta from Grodno, the central town of the guberniya. It is situated on two coasts of river
Muha. Its population in was 8,220
citizens. "Yarmarka",
traders from nearby places would bring their goods to Pruzhany on certain
days. There was a Post office, Telegraph office, two Institutions of Learning
and ase ("Sberegatelnaya Kassa"),
a saving fund organized at the central financial organization of the uyezd
("Kaznacheistvo"). The officials of the town consisted of: ·
Chief of local nobility -
Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Vysheslavtsev. ·
Chief of local police ("ispravnik")
-"kollejsky sovetnik" (it is a sort of title)
Stanislav Vasilievich Ivannikov. ·
Chief of local army - "podpolkovnik" (podpolkov
is a colonel),
("podpolkovnik" is less then "polkovnik") Viktor
Aleksandrovich Nikolsky. " ·
Conflict resolver (“Mirovoi Posrednik", an official,
usually from nobility, whose aim is to deal
with conflicts between peasants and landowners) for the first district
"kollejsky sovetnik" Yakov Ivanovich Ivanov, for the second
district
Alexandr Alexandrovich Belozersky. ·
Criminal researcher: First district Arseny Alexandrovich
Arefiev, Second district Kosma
Alexandrovich Zasadkevich. ·
Finance Manager (Uyezd "kaznachei"), "kollejsky sovetnic" Georgy
Konstantinovich Konstantinov. ·
Tax inspectors for Manufacturers, 6 district: "kollejsky
sovetnik" Leon. Ed. Kenig, his assistant Konstantin Konstantinovich
Buch; Evgeny Evgenievich Ekk (in Selets), Ign. Ist. Vychalkovsky
(Kartuz-Bereza) Pet. Ktjy. Renard, Lev Ivanovich Malevsky, ·
"Gubernsky secretar", SergueiAlexandrovichZabela (inPruzhany) ·
City "golova" (head) Alexander Mihailovich Korshunov. The
Center of uezd, 984 versta from St. Petersburg, 968 versta from Moscow and 183 versta from the central
town of guberniya, situated on two coasts of river Muha. 7631 citizens. 5
fairs. Two learning institutions. Telegraph. ·
The chief of local nobility ("nadvorny sovetnic") Ivan
Mikhailovich Vysheslavtsev. ·
The chief of local police ("ispravnik") -
"kollejsky sekretar": Stepan ·
Uezd doctor: Ivan Kazimirivich Lovchinovsky ·
Chief of local army - ("podpolkovnik") Viktor
Aleksandrovich Nikolsky. ·
Local judges: ("nadvorny sovetnik") Alexei
Petrovich Baranovsky. ("kollejsky ·
Criminal researcher: First district ("kolejsky
assesor") Arseny Alexandrovich |