History of Pruzhany
City, center of the district. Located on the river. Mukhavets, 89 km north-east of Brest, 13 km from the railway station. Oranchitsy (on the Baranovichi - Brest line). The junction of highways to Brest, Vysokoe, Shereshevo, Bereza, Slonim, Kobrin.
The first mention of the Prushan volost dates back to 1433. According to the writer and historian Yu. I. Krashevsky and others, the name arose in connection with the settlement here of the Prussians who were fleeing from the crusaders (Prusy, Prusyany, Prushany). Pruzhany have been known since 1487 under the name Dobuchin. Until 1519 in the Kobrin principality. After the death of the Kobrin prince Ivan Semyonovich, Pruzhany passed into the possession of his wife Fedora, in 1519, by the privilege of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I the Old, to Marshal V. Kostevich, they were included in the Kobrin eldership. Since 1520 in the Kobrin district of the Podlasie voivodeship, since 1566 in the Brest district and the province. In the 16th century. belonged to the Queen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Bona and her daughter Anna. In 1589 the city, which at that time was quite large shopping center, received the Magdeburg Law, the name Pruzhany was assigned to it. 4 fairs were held here a year. According to the inventory of 1563, there were 1250 inhabitants, 7 streets, 278 households in Pruzhany. In the 16th century. there was a Pruzhany "royal courtyard" (a wooden palace, 2 wings, a stable, a barn, a furnace, a bakery, 4 barns, a water mill, a garden).
During the wars of the middle 17th - 1st half of the 18th century. the city was badly destroyed, the number of buildings decreased 5 times. In 1776 he was deprived of the Magdeburg Law. By the end of the 18th century. restored, in 1791 - 2094 inhabitants.
Since 1795 Pruzhany has been a part of Russia: the city, the center of the Slonim province, since 1797 the Lithuanian province, since 1801 the Grodno province. In 1845 they received a new coat of arms: a spruce tree with a hunting pipe hanging on the branches is depicted on a light brown background. In 1866, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was built in the center of Pruzhany, in 1878 - the Transfiguration Church. In 1857, the city had 5665 inhabitants. During the uprising of 1863-64. detachments of R. Roginsky, S. Songin and B. Rylsky operated in the Pruzhany region. On 13 February 1863 they occupied the city.
The abolition of serfdom contributed to economic development cities.
According to the 1897 census, there are 7633 residents (43.4% of literate) in Pruzhany, 14 small enterprises, county and two-class parish schools, 6 hospitals. In the 19th - 1st half of the 20th century. Pruzhany is known as the center of pottery. During the revolution of 1905-07. in Pruzhany, workers of a tobacco factory and a distillery went on strike.
From August 1915 the city was occupied by German troops, from 30 January 1919 to July 1920 by Polish troops. From 27.7 to 19.9.1920 Soviet power was in the city, the district military-revolutionary committee operated. According to the Riga Peace Treaty in 1921-39. Pruzhany was part of bourgeois Poland: the povet town of the Polesie Voivodeship. The workers 'struggle for national liberation was led by the organizations of the KPZB, KSMZB, the Belarusian peasant-workers' community.
Since September 1939, Pruzhany has been a part of the BSSR, since 15.1.1940, the center of the district of the Brest region. 6/23/1941 the city was occupied by the German fascist invaders. Since 1942, an underground anti-fascist committee operated, from 11/23/1943 to 11/07/1944 - an underground district committee of the CP (b) B, from September 1, 1943 to 11/07/1944 - an underground district committee of the LKSMB. The invaders killed more than 4 thousand people in the death camp in the city, the housing stock was destroyed by 70%.
07/17/1944 Pruzhany was liberated by units of the 28th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. In 1959, in the regional design workshops in Baranovichi, a layout scheme for Pruzhany was developed, which streamlined the irregular grid of streets. In 1974, a master plan of the city was developed at the Minsk branch of the Central Research and Design Institute for Urban Development. The city has 3 planning districts: southern, western and eastern. The planning structure is determined by the central axial highway (Sovetskaya, Kobrinskaya, Oktyabrskaya streets), the streets of Lenin, R. Shirma, Krasnoarmeyskaya perpendicular to it, and the curvilinear outline of the floodplain of the river. Mukhavets. Historic center of the city is Sovetskaya Square, where architectural monuments of the 19th century have been preserved - shopping arcades and the Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky. The new administrative and social center Pruzhany was formed on R. Shirma and Sovetskaya streets. The buildings include the House of Soviets, a hotel, a residential building with shops. central part the cities and centers of the eastern and northern regions are built up with multi-storey residential buildings. New microdistricts arose in the northern part of the city and on the street. Oktyabrskaya. The southern industrial zone was formed.
Main industrial enterprises: fruit-canning plant, butter and cheese plant, cannery, flax plant, factories building materials, utilities, cooperative industry. The regional association "Selkhozkhimiya", the regional consumer services combine, a garment and knitwear factory, 4 construction organizations and 4 convoys operate.
In Pruzhany there are a state farm-technical school, 4 secondary, music and children's and youth sports schools, 7 preschool institutions, 2 Houses of culture, 2 cinemas, 2 libraries, a hospital, Brest regional agricultural experimental station, a zonal agrochemical laboratory.
About 60 billion Belarusian rubles were spent to prepare the city of Pruzhany and the Pruzhany region for the republican festival-fair "Dazhynki-2003", which took place on October 3-4.
As a result of the work carried out, the city has been greatly transformed.
The Palace of Culture and a new bus station were built in Pruzhany.
In the center of the city, barracks were demolished and a residential building was erected, on the first floor of which there was a pharmacy and a branch of Belarusbank.
The city hotel "Mukhavets" was rebuilt in the European manner. 52 ° 33′24 ″ s. sh. 24 ° 27'52 "in. etc. HGIOL
Population
Story
The first mention of the Prushanskaya volost dates back to 1433. According to the writer and historian Yu. I. Krashevsky and others, the name arose in connection with the settlement here of the Prussians fleeing from the crusaders (Prusy, Prusyany, Prushany). Pruzhany have been known since 1487 under the name Dobuchin. Until 1519 Pruzhany were part of the Kobrin principality. After the death of the Kobrin prince Ivan Semyonovich, Pruzhany passed into the possession of his wife Fedora, in 1519, by the privilege of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I the Old, to Marshal V. Kostevich, they were included in the Kobrin eldership. Since 1520 in the Kobrin district of the Podlaskie voivodeship, since 1566 in the Brest powiat and voivodeship. In the 16th century, belonged to the Queen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Bona and her daughter Anna. Four fairs were held in Pruzhany a year. According to the inventory of 1563, there were 1250 inhabitants, 7 streets, 278 households in Pruzhany. In the 16th century, there was the Pruzhany "royal court" (a wooden palace, 2 outbuildings, a stable, a barn, a furnace, a bakery, 4 barns, a water mill, a garden).
On May 6, 1589, King Sigismund III, at the request of his queen's aunt Anna, granted the inhabitants of Pruzhany the Magdeburg right "for eternity".
During the wars of the middle 17th - 1st half of the 18th century. the city was badly destroyed, the number of buildings decreased 5 times. In 1776 he was deprived of the Magdeburg Law. By the end of the 18th century. restored, in 1791 - 2094 inhabitants.
Since 1795 Pruzhany has been a part of Russia: the city, the center of the Slonim province, since 1797 the Lithuanian province, since 1801 the Grodno province. In 1845 they received a new coat of arms: a spruce tree with a hunting pipe hanging on the branches is depicted on a light brown background. In 1866, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was built in the center of Pruzhany, in 1878 - the Transfiguration Church. In 1857, the city had 5665 inhabitants. During the uprising of 1863-64. detachments of R. Roginsky, S. Songin and B. Rylsky operated in the Pruzhany region. On February 13, 1863, they occupied the city.
The abolition of serfdom contributed to the economic development of the city.
According to the 1897 census, there are 7633 inhabitants in Pruzhany (43.4% of literate people), including Jews - 5079, Belarusians - 2316, Russians - 443, Poles - 225. There were 14 small enterprises, a county and two-class parish school, 6 hospitals. In the 19th - 1st half of the 20th century. Pruzhany is known as the center of pottery. During the revolution of 1905-07. in Pruzhany, workers of a tobacco factory and a distillery went on strike. From August 1915 the city was occupied by German troops, from January 30, 1919 to July 1920, by Polish troops. From July 27 to September 19, 1920, Soviet power was in the city, a district military revolutionary committee was operating.
According to the Riga Peace Treaty in 1921-39. Pruzhany was part of Poland: the county town of the Polesie Voivodeship. The workers 'struggle for national liberation was led by the organizations of the KPZB, KSMZB, the Belarusian peasant-workers' community.
Since September 1939, Pruzhany has been a part of the BSSR, since January 15, 1940 it has been the center of the district of the Brest region. On June 23, 1941, the city was occupied by the German fascist invaders. From 1942, an underground anti-fascist committee operated, from November 23, 1943 to July 11, 1944 - an underground district committee of the CP (b) B, from September 1, 1943 to July 11, 1944 - an underground district committee of the LKSMB. The invaders killed more than 4 thousand people in the death camp in the city, the housing stock was destroyed by 70%. July 17, 1944 Pruzhany was liberated by units of the 28th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front.
In 1959, in the regional design workshops in Baranovichi, a layout scheme for Pruzhany was developed, which streamlined the irregular grid of streets. In 1974, a master plan of the city was developed at the Minsk branch of the Central Research and Design Institute for Urban Development.
The city has 3 planning districts: southern, western and eastern. The planning structure is determined by the central axial highway (Sovetskaya, Kobrinskaya, Oktyabrskaya streets), the streets of Lenin, R. Shirma, Krasnoarmeyskaya perpendicular to it, and the curvilinear outline of the floodplain of the river. Mukhavets. The historical center of the city is Sovetskaya Square, where architectural monuments of the 19th century have been preserved. - shopping arcade and Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The new administrative and social center Pruzhany was formed on R. Shirma and Sovetskaya streets. The buildings include the House of Soviets, a hotel, a residential building with shops. The central part of the city and the centers of the eastern and northern regions are built up with multi-storey residential buildings. New microdistricts arose in the northern part of the city and on the street. Oktyabrskaya. The southern industrial zone was formed.
The main industrial enterprises are a fruit-canning plant, a butter-cheese plant, a cannery, a flax plant, building materials plants, communal enterprises, and a cooperative industry. The regional association "Selkhozkhimiya", the regional consumer services combine, a garment and knitwear factory, 4 construction organizations and 4 convoys operate.
In Pruzhany there is an agricultural technical college, 4 secondary schools, a gymnasium, a music and children's and youth sports schools, an ice and water palace, 7 preschool institutions, 1 Palace and 1 House of Culture, 1 cinema, 2 libraries, a hospital, Brest regional agricultural experimental station, zonal agrochemical laboratory.
Economy
The industry of Pruzhany is represented by enterprises that process agricultural raw materials (a dairy plant, a flax plant, a fruit canning plant, a cooperative industrial plant, a bakery), a metalwork plant "Zagedan", the production of electrical and energy equipment (the "Allur" company), a radio components plant, a building materials plant, a forestry enterprise , which has its own production base, and other enterprises.
Pilot S.M. Gudimov, Soviet pilots, at the mass graves of the Red Army, Soviet soldiers and partisans. The city is home to the Pruzhany park, a local natural monument.
Notes
Literature
- “Towns, townships and castles of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Encyclopedia "/ Salamakha V.P. - Minsk:" Belarusian Encyclopedia ", 2009.
- Acts issued by the Vilna archaeographic commission. -T.5. Acts of the Brest and Grodno city courts with the addition of privileges to land tenure in the Brest and Kobrin economies. - Vilna, 1871. - p. 426-428.
Locals are offended that the Pruzhany District is perceived as transfer point on the way to Belovezhskaya Pushcha, and the local interesting places and sights are enough for a few sightseeing days! The editors decided to check whether this is so, why it is worth going here and how long it will take to get to know the surroundings first.
RUZHANY
1st stop. Belarusian Versailles
Belarusian Versailles is what everyone wants to see in Ruzhany. The palace of the beginning of the 17th century was originally built by the chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Lev Sapieha as a defensive castle. And today the ruins of red brick in the complex with the entrance bram renovated in 2011 look very impressive.
Be sure to check out the Ruzhansky palace complex Sapegas "in the entrance wings. Here you will learn about the history of Ruzhany, about where, according to legend, leads underground passage from the 3rd floor of the basement, when representatives of the Sapieha family were here for the last time, how many Jews returned to the village after World War II, how the theatrical registration of marriage is held within the walls of the museum. It will not be boring!
The museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday inclusive, from 9 to 18.00 and a break (13.00-14.00). Admission - 2.50 rubles, for students, schoolchildren and pensioners - 1.80 rubles. Group excursion for an adult group of up to 25 people, the museum and the complex will cost 12 rubles, only for the museum - 7 rubles. For singles, an individual tour of the museum and the complex will cost 7.50 rubles.
Events on the territory of the palace are becoming a frequent occurrence. So, on June 3, the fifth festival "Ruzhany Brama" was held here with an evening fire show, an exhibition and sale of folk crafts, children's attractions and an animation program.
2nd stop. Jubilee church
In the center of Ruzhany there is the Trinity Church built in 1617 on the site of the wooden stone Trinity Church. In the 18th century, 2 symmetrical chapels were completed in it - the Holy Cross and St. Barbara, later several more reconstructions were carried out. The latter was in 1997-2003 with the support of Maria Sapieha and the Ministry of Culture of Poland, as the memorial sign at the entrance says. Lovers of architecture will recognize the features of Baroque and Classicism in this historic building. It is interesting that many of the things inside are original, for example, the bench on which the representatives of the Sapieha magnate family prayed. By the way, this summer the Trinity Church will celebrate its 400th anniversary.
3rd stop. Icon-savior
On the opposite side of the church, after crossing a small park, look into the Peter and Paul Church. If you're lucky and you find Father Alexander, you will hear from his mouth amazing story about how in 1895, after a strong fire in the entire village, only the temple remained unharmed, in which the windows only burst from the high temperature. Residents who took refuge in a stone church from trouble were saved by the Ruzhany icon of the 17th century, the most revered in this area.
4th stop. In the park
In the park near the church, and in some other places in the village, you will notice beautiful wooden sculptures. They appeared in Ruzhany in 2013 after the plein air of woodcarvers. Here is the Grand Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Lev Sapega, and his son Casimir, also the Polish king Vladislav IV Vaza with his wife, and the Polish queen Bona Sforza. Famous craftsmen from different cities of Belarus carved dozens of figures in honor of bright and active personalities who influenced the historical and cultural heritage of Ruzhany. A few meters from the wooden composition you will see a monument to Soviet soldiers - it was here that the city hall was once located.
5th stop. Papernya
IN summer time after a walk around the village, Lake Papernya with coastline 12 km. Its name is due to the fact that in the early 1600s, Lev Sapega built a paper manufactory here. The picturesque area with pine forests and swans on the shore inspires and calms, and thanks to the bright coniferous aroma, it is easy to breathe here. Probably, that is why the sanatorium "Ruzhansky", which is located in Ruzhanskaya Pushcha, is always full of vacationers. People come here for mud therapy, hirudotherapy, halotherapy in a salt cave, hypoxic therapy - breathing mountain air.
6th stop. Unique village
Locals will advise you to go from Ruzhany to the vicinity, namely to the village of Lyskovo. On the way, you can have a snack at the Tavern cafe, decorated in the spirit of the Middle Ages. Nothing is left of the ancient castle in the swamps near Lyskovo, except that here and there defensive ditches are visible. But in the village itself you can admire the majestic and dilapidated building of the Trinity Church, previously belonging to the monastery of 1751. Another attraction of the village is orthodox Church Nativity of the Virgin, built - attention! - in 1933. The year of construction is explained by the fact that the territory was part of Poland until 1939, and there was no Soviet power here. It is also noteworthy that this is the only monument of wooden architecture in Belarus, made under the influence of the architecture of Transcarpathia and the Art Nouveau style. Lyskovo is unique not only for its preserved wooden church, but also by the fact that it was here that the famous "Chronicle of Bykhovets", a collection of Belarusian-Lithuanian chronicles of the 16th century, was created.
Taking into account the rich excursion program, you can stay overnight in Ruzhany. But there is only one private hotel here. Better go to Pruzhany, where there are more options for accommodation and there will certainly be vacant rooms. We recommend the Mukhavets Hotel.
SPRING
1st stop. Miraculous icon
From the building next to the hotel "Mukhavets" three portraits will look at you - these are famous fellow countrymen of Pruzhany. One of them is Mikhail Zabeyda-Sumitsky, the first Belarusian to perform in Milan opera house La Scala. There are two main attractions of the city center nearby - the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the shopping arcade of the late 19th century. The temple was built in just two years with donations from townspeople, landowners and peasants, Moscow merchants. It contains an icon that in 1934 showed a miracle - tears flowed from the eyes of the Mother of God. The shopping arcade was originally wooden, but in 1867 they acquired a modern look. Each niche housed a separate shop, where Jews, as a rule, traded.
2nd stop. "Fly and Vec"
In a couple of minutes walk from the Palace of Culture, which, like many other things in the city, was transformed in the process of preparation for the 2003 Dozhinki, there is the only sculptural composition in Belarus over the river "Mukha and Vets". Installed in 2009, it symbolizes the confluence of the Mukha River and the Vets Canal, where the Mukhavets River, the right tributary of the Western Bug, originates. Let the sculptures not look grandiose, but they will quite pass for cute business card cities.
3rd stop. Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary opened its doors to parishioners as a church only in 1998, although construction began in the second half of the 19th century. The history of the Catholic church was influenced by the uprising of 1863, as a result of which the almost completed building was passed on to Orthodox believers. Locals they say that during the Great Patriotic War, soldiers kept warm in this temple, lighting a fire from an organ. Now it is the only church in Pruzhany.
Walking in the city in hot weather, you can refresh yourself - go to the ice or water palace. For adults, an hour of skating with skates rental will cost 3 rubles, for children under 16 - 2.45 rubles. And the water palace has a swimming pool and a small water park. Its visit will cost an adult 5.35 rubles (70 minutes), for children - 4 rubles.
4th stop. Pruzhany palatsik
We recommend visiting the “Pruzhany Palatsik Estate Museum”, both inside and outside. In the building of this unusual early Renaissance rural villa today there are several museum expositions: an ethnographic, a salon with a grand piano and copies of the works of Napoleon Orda, a hunting room, an exhibition of contemporary artists, an icon room. The guide will tell you in detail about the owners of the estate, built according to the project of an Italian architect, and their fates. And in the hall of ethnographic composition you will see products of glossy and black-smoky ceramics, widely known in the Pruzhany region since the 16th century and, unfortunately, practically not developing in our time.
5th stop. "Wooden" people
In the Pruzhany region there is a village where the famous folk master of traditional art crafts Nikolai Tarasyuk, a 10th generation peasant, lived all his life. In the village of Stoyly, Nikolai Vasilyevich remained the last resident, except for his beloved "wooden people", which today lives in a small house next to the master's. The figurines, skillfully made by the master of wood, vine and straw, “tell” about the rural life and the way of life of Belarusian peasants. Unfortunately, in the Stables there is still no full-fledged museum, where anyone can come, but the daughter of the famous master is always glad to see guests. You can see the works not only in the village, but also in National Museum history and culture, in the Brest Museum of Local Lore.
If the second day of such a mini-trip seems busy to you, and there is really something to see in the Pruzhany region, do not rush home. There are many good manor houses in the surrounding villages where you can stay overnight with a hot home-cooked dinner.
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Population
Population - 19.9 thousand inhabitants ().
Transport system
- 1 Gastello lane
- 1 Kupala Yankee lane
- 2 Gastello lane
- 2 Kupala Yankee lane
- 17 September street
- 50 years of October street
- Aptekarskiy lane
- Batova street
- Bakhareva street
- Bogdanovich street
- Bogushevich street, lane
- Vashkevich street
- Vinogradov street, lane
- Gastello street
- Gogol street
- Gorina-Kolyada street, lane
- Hill street, lane
- Gorky Maxim street, lane
- Gudimova street, lane
- Zhukov street
- Factory street
- Zasima street
- Zaslonova street
- International street
- Kalinovsky street
- Kafanova street
- Kirov street
- Kobrin street, lane
- Kolas Yakub street, lane
- Komarova street
- Komsomolskaya street, lane
- Koneva street
- Kosmodemyanskaya Zoe Street
- Kostyakova street, lane
- Kotovsky street
- Krasnoarmeyskaya street, lane
- Krivosheina lane
- Kupala Yankee street
- Kukhareva street
- Lazo street
- Lenin street
- Makarenko street
- Masherova street
- Mayakovsky street
- Mira, lane
- Mitskevich street
- Michurina street
- Embankment street
- Nichiporovich street
- New street
- Oktyabrskaya street, lane
- Olkhovaya street
- Olshevsky lane
- Ostrovsky street
- Park street
- Pionerskaya street
- Field street, lane
- Polesskaya street
- Polotsk Efrosinya street
- Industrial street
- Simple street
- Pushkin street, lane
- Rokossovsky street
- garden Street
- Svergun street
- Liberty street, lane
- Sovetskaya street
- Socialist street
- Construction street
- Tikhon Baran street
- Quiet street
- Tolstoy street, lane
- Tormasova street, lane
- Urbanovich street
- Frunze street
- Horuzhei Vera Lane
- Hotimsky street
- Chapaeva street
- Chernyshevsky street
- Chernyakhovsky street
- Shevchenko street, lane
- Screens Rygora street, lane
- Yubileinaya street
- May 1 street, lane
Story
The first mention of the Prushan volost dates back to 1433. According to the writer and historian Yu. I. Krashevsky and others, the name arose in connection with the settlement here of the Prussians fleeing the crusaders (Prusy, Prusiany, Prushany). Pruzhany have been known since 1487 under the name Dobuchin. Until 1519 Pruzhany were part of the Kobrin principality. After the death of the Kobrin prince Ivan Semyonovich, Pruzhany passed into the possession of his wife Fedora, in 1519, by the privilege of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund I the Old, to Marshal V. Kostevich, they were included in the Kobrin eldership. Since 1520 in the Kobrin district of the Podlasie voivodeship, since 1566 in the Brest district and the province. In the 16th century. belonged to the Queen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Bona and her daughter Anna. In 1589 the city, which at that time was a fairly large trade center, received the Magdeburg Law, and the name Pruzhany was assigned to it. 4 fairs were held here a year. According to the inventory of 1563, there were 1250 inhabitants, 7 streets, 278 households in Pruzhany. In the 16th century. there was a Pruzhany "royal courtyard" (a wooden palace, 2 wings, a stable, a barn, a furnace, a bakery, 4 barns, a water mill, a garden). During the wars of the mid-17th - 1st half of the 18th century. the city was badly destroyed, the number of buildings decreased by 5 times. In 1776 he was deprived of the Magdeburg Law. By the end of the 18th century. restored, in 1791 - 2094 inhabitants.
Since 1795 Pruzhany has been a part of Russia: the city, the center of the Slonim province, since 1797 the Lithuanian province, since 1801 the Grodno province. In 1845 they received a new coat of arms: a spruce tree with a hunting pipe hanging on the branches is depicted on a light brown background. In 1866, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was built in the center of Pruzhany, in 1878 - the Transfiguration Church. In 1857, the city had 5665 inhabitants. During the uprising of 1863-64. detachments of R. Roginsky, S. Songin and B. Rylsky operated in the Pruzhany region. On 13 February 1863 they occupied the city.
The abolition of serfdom contributed to the economic development of the city.
According to the 1897 census, there are 7633 residents (43.4% of literate) in Pruzhany, 14 small enterprises, county and two-class parish schools, 6 hospitals. In the 19-1st half of the 20th century. Pruzhany is known as the center of pottery. During the revolution of 1905-07. in Pruzhany, workers of a tobacco factory and a distillery went on strike. From August 1915 the city was occupied by German troops, from January 30, 1919 to July 1920, by Polish troops. From 27.7 to 19.9.1920 Soviet power was in the city, the district military-revolutionary committee operated.
According to the Riga Peace Treaty in 1921-39. Pruzhany was part of Poland: the county town of the Polesie Voivodeship. The workers 'struggle for national liberation was led by the organizations of the KPZB, KSMZB, the Belarusian peasant-workers' community.
From September 1939 Pruzhany was a part of the BSSR, from 15.1.1940 the center of the district of the Brest region. 6/23/1941 the city was occupied by the German fascist invaders. Since 1942, an underground anti-fascist committee operated, from 11/23/1943 to 11/07/1944 - the underground district committee of the CP (b) B, from September 1, 1943 to 11/07/1944 - the underground district committee of the LKSMB. The invaders killed more than 4 thousand people in the death camp in the city, the housing stock was destroyed by 70%. 07/17/1944 Pruzhany was liberated by units of the 28th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front.
In 1959, in the regional design workshops in Baranovichi, a layout scheme for Pruzhany was developed, which streamlined the irregular grid of streets. In 1974, a master plan of the city was developed at the Minsk branch of the Central Research and Design Institute for Urban Development.
The city has 3 planning districts: southern, western and eastern. The planning structure is determined by the central axial highway (Sovetskaya, Kobrinskaya, Oktyabrskaya streets), the Lenin, R. Shirma, Krasnoarmeyskaya streets perpendicular to it, and the curvilinear outline of the river. Mukhavets. The historical center of the city is Sovetskaya Square, where architectural monuments of the 19th century have been preserved - shopping arcades and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The new administrative and social center Pruzhany was formed on R. Shirma and Sovetskaya streets. The buildings include the House of Soviets, a hotel, a residential building with shops. The central part of the city and the centers of the eastern and northern regions are built up with multi-storey residential buildings. New microdistricts arose in the northern part of the city and on the street. Oktyabrskaya. The southern industrial zone was formed.
The main industrial enterprises are a fruit-canning plant, a butter-cheese plant, a cannery, a flax plant, building materials plants, communal enterprises, and a cooperative industry. The regional association "Selkhozkhimiya", the regional consumer services combine, a garment and knitwear factory, 4 construction organizations and 4 convoys operate.
In Pruzhany there are a state farm-technical school, 5 secondary, music and children's and youth sports schools, 7 preschool institutions, 2 houses of culture, 2 cinemas, 2 libraries, a hospital, the Brest regional agricultural experimental station, a zonal agrochemical laboratory.
Economy
The industry of Pruzhany is represented by enterprises that process agricultural raw materials (a dairy plant, a flax plant, a fruit canning plant, a cooperative industry plant, a bakery), a radio components plant, a building materials plant, a forestry enterprise with its own production base, and other enterprises.
sights
Shopping arcade "White shops"
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Manor and park complex of the Shvykovskys
The city has preserved architectural monuments - a chapel (1852), the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1866), a shopping arcade (1896), a city estate (2nd half of the 19th century), where local history museum... Monuments have been erected: V.Z.Khoruzhei, pilot S.M. Gudimov, Soviet pilots, at the mass graves of Red Army soldiers, Soviet soldiers and partisans. The city is home to the Pruzhany park - a natural monument of local importance.
In the fall of 2003 in Pruzhany, the republican competition "Dazhynki" was held, as a result of which new architectural buildings and the appearance of the city has changed significantly. In the summer of 2007, an ice palace was opened in Pruzhany (for the first time such a structure appeared in the city of regional subordination). By the end of 2010, a water palace with a water park was built.
Sport
- Children's youth sports school
- Ice Palace
- Water palace
Famous natives
- Pomers Leon eng. Pommers leon - American pianist;
Literature
- “Towns, townships and castles of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Encyclopedia ", Salamakha V.P., Minsk," Belarusian Encyclopedia ", 2009
There are several legends about the appearance of the name "Pruzhany". According to one of them, the name comes from the main agricultural crop in these places - millet. Other sources claim that the Baltic tribes of the Prussians once lived on the territory of modern Pruzhany, who escaped from the crusaders in the late 13th - early 14th centuries. A must visit in Georgia.
Pruzhany became part of the Russian Empire in 1795. Since 1921 they were part of Poland, and in 1939 the city became part of the Byelorussian SSR.
Basic prices for travelers in Pruzhany
Rest in the city will not hit the budget for tourists, since prices in Belarusian cities are quite reasonable. There are two hotels in the city where tourists can comfortably stay. The first is called "Mukhovets" (Shirmy st., 15). It contains one and double rooms and luxury apartments. The rooms have bathrooms, showers, refrigerator, TV, telephone. Accommodation cost: single rooms - 44,000-48,000 bel. rubles, double rooms - 49,000-52,500 bel. rub., apartment - 94,700 bel. rub.
On Gorina-Kolyada street, 26 there is the Veras hotel with 1, 2, 3, 4 rooms with one junior suite. The rooms have everything you need, the hotel has a parking lot (unguarded), a hairdresser. Prices from 16,000 bel. rub. (in a room for four) up to 37 800 BYN rub. (junior suite).
Those tourists who do not want to stay in hotels can rent a room or apartment. For those arriving for a short time, daily rent - the best way.
What to see in Pruzhany
It cannot be said that there are many sights in Pruzhany, but nevertheless, buildings of architectural, artistic and historical value have been preserved in the city.
The shopping arcade, built in the 19th century, is an elongated rectangle, divided into shopping sections. The rows around the perimeter are surrounded by an arched gallery, which is typical for buildings of this type. The shopping arcade is interesting as an example of monumental architecture, a kind of mixture of baroque and classicism. There are literally a few such buildings in the cities of Belarus.
On Sovetskaya Street, you can get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat the city looked like before. Fragments of the old buildings of the late 19th - early 20th centuries have survived here, in particular, a music school (before that, the treasury), a pharmacy, a school, and residential buildings.
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, erected in 1857-1880, is an architectural structure in the style of classicism. Although by that time this style had already begun to decline, Orthodox churches (especially in the provinces) continued to observe these traditions, which were dictated by the policy of the Synod. The bell tower of the temple, towering above the cathedral, is a high-rise dominant and a kind of landmark in the old part of the city.
Ascension Church (1878-1883) - a local example of neoclassical architecture.
How to get to Pruzhany
Pruzhany and surroundings - beautiful place for recreation in the bosom of Belarusian nature. Tourists who prefer cheap rest without the mediation of travel agencies can get to Pruzhany on their own. From Minsk to Pruzhany 288 km, if you go by own car, then you should adhere to the following route: from MKAD to Dzerzhinsk - turn to Stolbtsy - turn to Baranovichi - turn to Slonim - turn to Ruzhany - turn to Pruzhany.
On the territory of the district passes railway... 13 km from Pruzhany there is railroad station Oranchitsy (line Moscow - Minsk - Brest). Urban bus depot Pruzhan serves both urban routes and suburban (27 routes) and intercity (4 routes).
Pruzhany palatsik
In the Pruzhany Park you can get acquainted with the real pearl of the city, which is called the Pruzhany palatsik. This is a wonderful example of manor-park architecture, located in the estate of the Shvykovskys, the former owners of the estate. The monument is an Italian rural villa in the neo-romantic style, the only one on the territory of Belarus. According to legend, the Romanov family has repeatedly visited this estate. The tsar indulged in hunting fun in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, while his wife communicated with the owner of the estate at that time.
Currently, the "Palatsik" houses a museum where you can admire the recreated old interiors. This is a winter garden, a fragrant and lush greenhouse, a charming flower room, a hunting room in the 19th century style, a music and art living room, a hall of folk crafts, art Gallery... The museum houses the "Last Supper" - a very rare wooden icon of the 16th century.
Pruzhany water park
In 2011, the city opened its own water park. This is an entertainment complex located in the Water Palace. To services of visitors - a swimming pool (25 m, depth 2.3 m) with 6 lanes, a sauna, a steam bath, billiards, table tennis, gyms for fitness and weightlifting, a cafeteria. The area of \u200b\u200bthe water park is 300 m2, visual division into children's and adult zones, between which there is a jacuzzi and two bridges. For children - a separate shallow pool (0.95 m).
The following works in the water park water attractions: "Mushroom", waterfalls, "Mountain River", underwater jets, attractions for little ones ("Little Mermaid" waterfall and "Valley of Geysers"), two spiral slides for the older ones.
A trip to the city of Pruzhany is an indispensable part of the majority tourist programs, who are aimed at rest in Belarus. It will be interesting to visit this city for both adults and children.
