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Population
Number - 19.9 thousand inhabitants ().
Transport system
- 1 Gastello Lane
- 1 Kupala Yanki Lane
- 2 Gastello Lane
- 2 Kupala Yanki Lane
- 17 September street
- 50 years of October street
- Aptekarsky Lane
- Batova street
- Bakhareva street
- Bogdanovich street
- Bogushevich street, lane
- Vashkevich street
- Vinogradova street, lane
- Gastello street
- Gogol street
- Gorina-Kolyada street, lane
- Gorka street, alley
- Gorky Maxim street, lane
- Gudimova street, lane
- Zhukov street
- factory street
- Zasima street
- Zaslonova street
- international street
- Kalinovsky street
- Kafanov street
- Kirova street
- Kobrinskaya street, lane
- Kolas Yakub street, lane
- Komarova street
- Komsomolskaya street, lane
- Koneva street
- Kosmodemyanskoy Zoya street
- Kostyakova street, lane
- Kotovsky street
- Krasnoarmeyskaya street, lane
- Krivosheina lane
- Kupala Yanka street
- Kukharev street
- Lazo street
- Lenin street
- Makarenko street
- Masherova street
- Mayakovsky street
- Mira lane
- Mickiewicz street
- Michurina street
- embankment street
- Nichiporovich street
- new street
- Oktyabrskaya street, lane
- Olkhovaya street
- Olshevsky lane
- Ostrovsky street
- park street
- Pioneer street
- Field street, alley
- Polisskaya street
- Polotsk Efrosinya street
- industrial street
- simple street
- Pushkin street, lane
- Rokossovsky street
- garden Street
- Sverguna street
- Freedom street, lane
- Soviet street
- socialist street
- Construction street
- Tikhon Barana street
- Quiet street
- Tolstoy street, lane
- Tormasova street, lane
- Urbanovich street
- Frunze street
- Horuzhey Vera Lane
- Khotimskogo street
- Chapaeva street
- Chernyshevsky street
- Chernyakhovsky street
- Shevchenko street, lane
- Screens Ryhora street, lane
- Yubileinaya street
- May 1st lane
Story
The first mention of the Prushansky volost dates back to 1433. According to the writer and historian Yu. I. Krashevsky and others, the name arose in connection with the settlement of the Prussians fleeing from the Crusaders (Prussians, Prussians, Prushany) here. Pruzhany have been known since 1487 under the name Dobuchin. Until 1519, Pruzhany was part of the Kobrin Principality. After the death of Prince Ivan Semyonovich of Kobrin, 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 part of the Kobrin starostvo. Since 1520 in the Kobrin povet of the Podlasie Voivodeship, since 1566 in the Brest povet and the voivodeship. In the 16th century belonged to the Queen of the Commonwealth Bona and her daughter Anna. In 1589 the city, which at that time was quite large shopping mall, received the Magdeburg Law, the name Pruzhany was assigned to it. There were 4 fairs a year. According to the inventory of 1563, there were 1250 inhabitants in Pruzhany, 7 streets, 278 households. In the 16th century there was a Pruzhany “royal court” (a wooden palace, 2 outbuildings, a stable, a barn, a firebox, a bakery, 4 barns, a water mill, a garden). During the wars of the middle of the 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 Magdeburg law. By the end of the 18th century restored, in 1791 - 2094 inhabitants.
Since 1795, Pruzhany has been part of Russia: a city, the center of the Slonim povet, since 1797 Lithuanian, since 1801 Grodno province. In 1845, they received a new coat of arms: a fir-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, and in 1878, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior was built. In 1857 there were 5665 inhabitants in the city. 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 were 7,633 inhabitants in Pruzhany (43.4% of literate people), 14 small enterprises, a county and two-year parish school, and 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 there were strikes of workers of a tobacco factory and a distillery. From August 1915 the city was occupied by German troops, from 30.1.1919 to July 1920 - by Polish troops. From July 27 to September 19, 1920, Soviet power was in the city, and the county military revolutionary committee operated.
According to the Riga Peace Treaty in 1921-39. Pruzhany was part of Poland: a district town of the Polesie Voivodeship. The workers' struggle for national liberation was led by the organizations of the KPZB, KSMZB, and the Byelorussian Peasant-Working Community.
Since September 1939, Pruzhany has been part of the BSSR, since 15.1.1940 the center of the district of the Brest region. On June 23, 1941, the city was occupied by Nazi invaders. From 1942, an underground anti-fascist committee operated, from 11/23/1943 to 7/11/1944 - the underground district committee of the CP (b) B, from 9/1/1943 to 7/11/1944 - the underground district committee of the LKSMB. The invaders destroyed more than 4 thousand people in the death camp in the city, the housing stock was destroyed by 70%. 17.7.1944 Pruzhany was liberated by units of the 28th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front.
In 1959, in the regional design workshops of the city of Baranovichi, a planning scheme for Pruzhany was developed, which streamlined the irregular grid of streets. In 1974, a master plan of the city was developed in the Minsk branch of the Central Research and Design Institute of Urban Development.
There are 3 planning districts in the city: southern, western and eastern. The planning structure is determined by the central axial highway (Sovetskaya, Kobrinskaya, Oktyabrskaya streets), Lenin, R. Shirma, Krasnoarmeyskaya streets perpendicular to it and the curvilinear outline of the floodplain of the river. Mukhavets. historical center The city is Sovetskaya Square, where architectural monuments of the 19th century have been preserved - shopping malls and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The new administrative and public center Pruzhany was formed on R. Shirma and Sovetskaya streets. In the development stand out 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 appeared in the northern part of the city and along the street. October. The southern industrial zone was formed.
The main industrial enterprises are: a canning plant, a butter and cheese plant, a cannery, a flax plant, building materials plants, communal enterprises, and a cooperative industry. The regional association "Selkhozkhimiya", the regional consumer services complex, a sewing and knitting factory, 4 construction organizations and 4 convoys are operating.
In Pruzhany there are a state farm technical school, 5 secondary, music and youth sports schools, 7 preschool institutions, 2 houses of culture, 2 cinemas, 2 libraries, a hospital, the Brest Regional Agricultural Experimental Station, and a zonal agrochemical laboratory.
Economy
The industry of Pruzhany is represented by enterprises processing agricultural raw materials (a dairy plant, a flax plant, a 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.
Attractions
Shopping arcade "White benches"
Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky
Manor and park complex Shvykovsky
Architectural monuments have been preserved in the city - a chapel (1852), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1866), shopping malls (1896), a city estate (2nd half of the 19th century), in which a local history museum operates. Monuments were erected: V. Z. Khoruzhey, pilot S. M. Gudimov, Soviet pilots, on the mass graves of Red Army soldiers, Soviet soldiers and partisans. The city has a park "Pruzhany" - a natural monument of local importance.
In the autumn of 2003, the republican competition "Dazhynki" was held in Pruzhany, as a result of which new architectural buildings appeared in the city and the appearance of the city changed significantly. In the summer of 2007, an ice palace was opened in Pruzhany (for the first time such a structure appeared in a 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 Pommers Leon- American pianist
Literature
- Cities, towns and castles of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Encyclopedia”, Salamakha V.P., Minsk, “Belarusian Encyclopedia”, 2009
Pruzhany is the administrative center of the Pruzhany district of the Brest region. Located on the Mukhavets River, 89 km northeast of the city of Brest, 11 km from the railway station Oranchitsy (on the line Baranovichi - Brest). The P85 highway passes through the city (Slonim - Ruzhany - Pruzhany - Vysokoye).
open all textHistory of development - Pruzhany
The first historical mention of the town of Pruzhany dates back to 1433, but it became known later, in 1487. In 1589 the town was granted Magdeburg law along with the city's statute, seal, and coat of arms. During its history, the city had several coats of arms, but in 1998 it was recreated vintage coat of arms and is now the main symbol of the city.
During the First World War, Pruzhany land was in the frontline zone and in the spring of 1915 the district was occupied by the troops of Kaiser Germany, who exported everything that was of value to them.
During the Great Patriotic War, two partisan brigades from several units in each. Here was underground printing house, which has been operating smoothly since 1942, changing its location several times. Pruzhany were liberated by units of the 28th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front on July 17, 1944.
In 1959, the Pruzhany planning scheme was developed, streamlining the irregular grid of streets. As a result, the city has 3 planning districts: southern, western and eastern. In 1974, in the Minsk branch of the Central Research and Design Institute of Urban Development, a master plan of the city was developed.
open all textTourism potential - Pruzhany
The city has many unique sights. For example, a manor built in the middle of the 19th century. In 1998 it housed Pruzhany Regional Museum of Local Lore, the concept and name of the museum was changed a little later. Now this . Not far from the museum there is a monument of wooden architecture - built in 1828.
In the second half of the 19th century, it was built in the city (1852), a little later, in 1857, they began to build, and in 1878 it was built.
One more interesting place in the city - - an architectural monument with elements of baroque and classicism, it is a vivid example monumental architecture, there are only a few such monuments on the territory of Belarus.
Having visited historical sights, guests of the city can visit. There are attractions, saunas, jacuzzi. For visitors, the services of a gym, massage chairs, billiards, table tennis, badminton are also provided.
Pruzhany is the administrative center of the Pruzhany district of the Brest region. Located on the Mukhavets River, 89 km northeast of the city of Brest, 11 km from the railway station Oranchitsy (on the line Baranovichi - Brest). The P85 highway passes through the city (Slonim - Ruzhany - Pruzhany - Vysokoye).
open all textHistory of development - Pruzhany
The first historical mention of the town of Pruzhany dates back to 1433, but it became known later, in 1487. In 1589 the town was granted Magdeburg law along with the city's statute, seal, and coat of arms. During its history, the city had several coats of arms, but in 1998 it was recreated vintage coat of arms and is now the main symbol of the city.
During the First World War, Pruzhany land was in the frontline zone and in the spring of 1915 the district was occupied by the troops of Kaiser Germany, who exported everything that was of value to them.
During the Great Patriotic War, two partisan brigades from several units in each. Here was underground printing house, which has been operating smoothly since 1942, changing its location several times. Pruzhany were liberated by units of the 28th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front on July 17, 1944.
In 1959, the Pruzhany planning scheme was developed, streamlining the irregular grid of streets. As a result, the city has 3 planning districts: southern, western and eastern. In 1974, in the Minsk branch of the Central Research and Design Institute of Urban Development, a master plan of the city was developed.
open all textTourism potential - Pruzhany
The city has many unique sights. For example, a manor built in the middle of the 19th century. In 1998 it housed Pruzhany Regional Museum of Local Lore, the concept and name of the museum was changed a little later. Now this . Not far from the museum there is a monument of wooden architecture - built in 1828.
In the second half of the 19th century, it was built in the city (1852), a little later, in 1857, they began to build, and in 1878 it was built.
Another interesting place in the city is an architectural monument with elements of baroque and classicism, it is a vivid example of monumental architecture, there are only a few such monuments on the territory of Belarus.
Having visited historical sights, guests of the city can visit. There are attractions, saunas, jacuzzi. For visitors, the services of a gym, massage chairs, billiards, table tennis, badminton are also provided.
