A selection of maps on the history of Belarus. Old maps of Belarus Mobile map of Belarus 18th century

Created on April 23, 1793 after the 2nd partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Occupied the territory of Minsk and partly Novogrudok and Brest voivodeships of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. From May 3, 1795 to 1796 it was called the Minsk governorship. Initially, the province included 13 districts: Bobruisk, Borisov, Vileysky, David-Gorodok, Disnensky, Dokshitsky, Igumensky, Mozyr, Minsk, Nesvizh, Postavsky, Pinsky, Slutsky. In November 1796, the Rechitsa district was annexed, and the David-Gorodok, Dokshitsky, Nesvizh, and Postavy districts were abolished. In December 1842, the Novogrudok district was annexed from the Grodno province, and the Vileika and Disna districts were transferred to the Vilna province. From that time until 1919 Minsk province administratively divided into counties: Bobruisk, Borisovsky, Igumensky, Mozyrsky, Minsky, Novogrudok, Pinsky, Rechitsky, Slutsky. The site is presented on the website list of localities and settlements of the Minsk province for 1870, indicating parishes and affiliation with estates.

From November 7, 1917, the Minsk Governorate was part of the Western Region, from March 1918, as part of the BPR, from January 1, 1919, in the BSSR, from February 2, 1919, in LitBel. In 1919-20, Baranovichi and Nesvizh districts were formed, Rechitsa, Mozyr and parts of Bobruisk, Borisov and Igumen districts were annexed to the Gomel province. Since July 1920 in the BSSR. On March 18, 1921, when part of the territory of the province, except for Bobruisk, Borisov, Igumen, Mozyr, Minsk and Slutsk districts, became part of Poland, the province ceased to exist.

Population of Minsk province

In 1845 in the Minsk province there were 9 cities (1 provincial and 8 district), 2 provincial cities, 116 towns, 2983 villages, 15,121 villages, 2162 dungeons and outskirts. According to the 1897 census, 2,147,600 people lived in the province. According to the national composition, Belarusians - 76.04%, Jews - 15.9%, Russians - 3.91%, Poles - 3.01%; according to religion, Orthodox - 72.56%, Jews - 16.06%, Catholics - 10.15%, Old Believers - 0.74%, Protestants - 0.27%, Muslims - 0.21%; by class: nobles - 3.64%, priests - 0.26%, merchants - 0.16%, burghers - 23.6%, peasants - 71.8%; literate - 17.8% of the population, in cities - 45.2%. In 1893 there were 860 churches, 67 churches, 6 Protestant institutions (churches, gatherings, houses of worship), 9 mosques, 36 synagogues, 420 Jewish houses of worship.

The main occupations of the population: agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing, beekeeping, forestry, and handicrafts. In 1892, there were 320 enterprises, including 138 distilleries, 23 breweries, 14 meaderies, 36 flour mills, 7 oil mills, 3 cloth factories; in the 1890s there were 24 stud farms; in 1908 there were 215 distilleries, 16 breweries, and 445 factories and factories.

The following railways passed through the territory of the province: Libavo-Romenskaya, Moskovsko-Brestskaya, Brest-Bryansk, Vilna-Rovno, Baranovichi-Bialystok, Balogoe-Volkovysk.

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2020-01-12 Vasily Bylinsky Yatra, village (Novogrudok district)

The parish books of the Yatra Church are located in the State Institution "National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno" BY NIABGr f. 1844 for 1915,1918-1943... > > >

2020-01-12 Vitaly Dragun Sinelo, village (Igumensky district)

Hello! My grandfather, born in 1908, comes from the village of Sinelo. Where are the registers of births, marriages and deaths of a given parish kept?
address of the archive in which the registers of parishes are stored?... > > >

2020-01-10 Zbigniew Mariusz Wołocznik Ivenets, city (Minsk district)

Z działalności gminy iwienieckiej powiatu wołożyńskiego.
Rada gminy iwienieckiej w pierwszej połowie 1928-1929 odbyła 8 posiedzeń, na których uchwalono m.in.
wybudować 7 klasową szkołę podstawową w Iwieńcu, elektrownię, łaźnię i ubojnię zwierząt.
W tym celu poczyniono kroki przed Bankiem Gospodarstwa Krajowego w Warszawie w celu pożyczki.
W wyniku tych starań bank udzielił pożyczki gminie Iwieniec w wysokości 60.000 zł na budowę szkoły.
A co dotyczy pożyczki na budowę elektrowni, jest ona uzależniona od przedstawienia planów, kosztorysów
i sprawozdania z jej eksploatacji.
Z tego powodu Rada Gminy zwr... > > >

2020-01-09 Ermolovich Inna Shestysnopy, village (Igumensky district)

2020-01-08 Grzegorz Głodek Berbashi, dungeon (Novogrudok district)

Witam, szukam rodziny Jana Catewicz, urodzonego w 1932 r w tej miejscowości. Jego rodzice to Mikołaj oraz Anna Trzabatarowicz.... > > >

2020-01-07 Shtrykova Tatyana Zholkino, village (Pinsk district)

Good afternoon
I, Shtrykova (Borichevskaya) Tatyana Nikolaevna, live in Belarus. I am looking for all possible information about my grandfather. I am turning to you with a huge request for help in finding my grandfather, Borichevsky Grigory Nikolaevich or (Dorofeevich). During the Second World War he went to fight at the front. For a long time we knew nothing. In 1945 A letter came from him in which he wrote that he was in captivity in Germany. The Americans freed him and he ended up in Canada. My father and I corresponded with him periodically. He lived in Canada until 1977, at the following address: (WINDSOR, ONT. SUB. 15NO868). 1977 Grandfather wrote in a letter that he was going to go to the hospital to have his leg amputated. Since 1977, our connection has been severed. After which we wrote letters several times, but there was no answer. He was born in the BSSR...

In principle, it is clear that scientific articles arouse significantly less interest among visitors to my site than all kinds of maps, especially those of a general, overview nature. And now, I think, the selection of maps on the history of Belarus presented below will attract a lot of attention. Essentially, this is an atlas that reflects (with a few exceptions) all the milestones of the historical development of Belarus and, partly, the states it was part of at one time or another.

Continuation:

The maps were created in record time. They were intended for a monumental publication, which eventually received the pretentious name “Belarus: People. State. Time,” but among the employees of the Institute of History it was called “Seven Days” (yes, they still call it that now). True, I didn’t have to write the text, and I was given 10 days to create 16 cards. I managed, but the cards were then repeatedly corrected, supplemented, etc. Their number increased to 20 due to the expansion of military topics. As often happens, texts and maps were required to be submitted quickly, but the book waited for release for more than 2 years.

Currently, as the scientific secretary of the Institute of History said, my maps have become “national property”, they are used by everyone and everything, and I unexpectedly come across some of them published in various, in my opinion, strange publications. The last example: the map “The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century.” in the book “Russians in Belarus” (Compiled by A.N. Andreev. - Minsk: Makbel, 2010).

Being limited by time, I could make some mistakes when creating maps. Gradually they appear. Please note that here I will post already corrected versions. But, for example, a serious drawback of several maps was that they did not show the entire territory of the BSSR, as it had been since 1939 (with Bialystok). I did not have the necessary cartographic basis, and Belarus turned out to be, in a sense, “formed”. I can't fix this now.

In addition, the editors of the publication considered it necessary to remove the map frames I created, remove the names and type them again, move the legends and, most importantly, make the already small maps smaller. Nevertheless, everything was printed at a high printing level, but the cards ended up somehow being obscured against the background of a large number of illustrations, design elements, etc. Here I post exactly my works, in my edition, but I provide links to the publication, since the internal content (except for error corrections) has practically not changed. And one more thing - in the book itself it is not reflected anywhere who is the author and compiler of the maps.

Belarus: People. State. Time/National acad. Sciences of Belarus, Institute of History; editorial board: A.A. Kovalenya [and others]. – Minsk: Belarus. Navuka, 2009.

Settlement of the territory of Belarus in the Stone Age. P. 15.

Archaeological cultures and settlements on the territory of Belarus in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Early 2nd millennium BC - IV-V centuries. AD P. 22.

Ancient Rus' in the 9th – early 11th centuries. P. 43.

Principalities on the territory of Belarus in the 11th – early 13th centuries. P. 46.

Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1250–1430. P. 63.

Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1430–1548 P. 72.

Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 2nd half of the 16th century. Formation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. P. 74.

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century. P. 79.

As a clear example of the thieves’ use of my works, the placement of this map in the following publication: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th century. // Russians in Belarus / Comp. A.N. Andreev. - Minsk: Makbel, 2010. - S. ?. (page needs to be clarified)

Variant of the same map (with additions)

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 17th - first half of the 18th century. P. 86.

Sections of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1772–1795 Inclusion of Belarusian lands into the Russian Empire. P. 88.

Belarus as part of the Russian Empire in the 2nd half of the 19th – early 20th centuries. P. 94.

Belarus during the First World War. 1914-1918 P. 221.

This section presents all maps of Belarus.

General survey plans - 1765-1861.

Special Map of European Russia.

is a huge cartographic publication, running on 152 pages and covering a little more than half of Europe. Mapping lasted 6 years, from 1865 to 1871. Map scale: 1 inch - 10 versts, 1:420000, which in the metric system is approximately 1 cm - 4.2 km.

Maps can be downloaded.

Maps of the Red Army.

(Workers' and Peasants' Red Army) were compiled and published both in the USSR in the period from 1925 to 1941, and in Germany, in preparation for the war, in the period 1935-41. On maps printed in Germany, the name in German is often printed next to the Russian name of a village, river, etc.

250 meters.

Poland 1:25 000

500 meters.

kilometres.

Maps can be downloaded.

Polish WIG cards.

Maps were published in pre-war Poland - Military Institute of Geography (Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny), the scale of these maps is 1:100000 and 1:25000 or, to put it simply, 1 cm - 1 km and 1 cm -250 m, the quality of the maps is very good - 600 dpi, respectively, and the size of the maps is also not small, in fact, everything is more than 10 megabyte.

Intelligent, detailed and search engine-friendly maps. All the smallest details are visible: farmsteads, dungeons, farmsteads, manors, taverns, chapels, mills, etc.

Kilometer.

sample WIG card.

250 meter

One-verst map of Belarus.

A one-verst map of the western border area on a scale of 1-verst per inch (1:42000) was published from the 1880s until the First World War, and was republished until the end of the 1930s.
Maps scale 1:42000.

Military topographical 2-mile map of the Western Border Space.

Maps at a scale of 1:84000 (two-layer). Two-mile maps of the western border area began to be printed in 1883. The maps were also basic topographic maps during the First World War in the Russian army.

Just ten years ago, you could go to some unfamiliar places using only the “General Staff” kilometer or loyal friends and comrades who rode with you as a navigator, getting confused in the readings and giving inaccurate advice: “Well, it seems like you need to turn left here, I remember here the tree lay downed...”

Now, in just a few hours of surfing the Internet, you can study up and down the areas of interest, plan a route, put it all into your phone and then use it as a map. And after all this, also get to the point using all this data.

If you are interested in new places that you have never been to before, and you don’t have any other information (“tips” from friends, posts on the Internet, etc.), then you can try to find such places yourself.

What is needed for this?

First, a computer with Internet access and, preferably, some kind of mobile device with a GPS sensor and a screen with which you can then navigate: a modern mobile phone or tablet.

Secondly, services: