Ratomka before 1917
History
XVI century |
- Ratomka was founded as a private village in Minsk District of Minsk Province of the Great Lithuanian Princedom. |
Since 1793 |
- Ratomka was in Russian Empire. |
1801-1917 |
- Ratomka was a private village in Minsk District of Minsk Province. |
1873 |
- the railway station of Libava-Romny Railroad was constructed in Ratomka. Resident Jewish population appeared. |
Vital Statistics
Date |
Number of Jews |
Number of Non-Jews |
Commentaries |
Specific gravity in total population number |
|
1873 |
Jewish population appeared |
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1888 |
about 80 |
Total population |
No info |
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1905 |
242 |
Total population |
No info |
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1917 |
38 |
2182 |
Both sexes |
1,7 % |
Jewish Life
In the beg. XX century in Ratomka there were no Jewish objects.
Economical Review.
Traditional activities of local population were agriculture and chopping of wood. Since early times Ratomka river was the main trade way for local habitants.
During Russian principality the authorities did a lot to develop the region because of military and fiscal reasons mostly. First of all, old communications were reconstructed there:
- trade road Minsk - Zaslavl - Rodoshkovichi.
In XIX, because of development of the AllRussian Market, new types of communications appeared in the region:
- Libava - Romny railroad (1873);
- telegraph road (1870s).
Since those events Ratomka became to develop rapidly and by the early XX century became a non-agricultural center of locality.
In the end XIX - early XX century wood was the main cargo of Ratomka rail station. The station annual turnover was about 2 720 tons.
Here is the table of development of Ratomka in the 2nd half of XIX - early XX century:
Date of record |
Number of houses |
1888 |
11 |
1905 |
60 |
1917 |
113 |
In the late XIX - early XX century there was a water mill in Ratomka, kept by Fogel.
General cultural information.
There were nothing special in Ratomka before 1917 but post office and telegraph station. Closest doctor and synagogue were in Zaslavl (8 km).
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