Important issues of the daily life of Belarusian settlers in the territory of the Ufa district

Belarusians of Bashkortostan are one of the most poorly studied and underestimated peoples of the republic, whose role in the formation of the migration movement was enormous, especially at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. At present, there are pockets of settlements with descendants of Belarusian settlers in Bashkortostan. The topic of the migration of Belarusians to the Ufa province is one of the most complex in modern historiography due to the lack of a full-fledged theoretical, methodological, factual and source study base. For this purpose, the redemption cases found in F. 592. L. 35 of the Russian State Historical Archive (St. Petersburg) are used. Of the 643 cases studied in the Ufa district, 49 cases were identified on the formation of partnerships by Belarusian settlers in the period from 1893 to 1910. The author believes that it was the Grodno province that gave the largest number of settlers to the Ufa district of all the Belarusian provinces: the intensification of the process of settling the Ufa district by Belarusians began in 1892-1893 thanks to the resettlement of Belarusians from the Pruzhany district of the Grodno province, who founded the Pochaev partnership in 1893, which was, apparently, one of the first Belarusian partnerships. Belarusians bought up land mainly in the Nagaevskaya, Arkhangelskaya, Novo-Troitskaya and Urman-Kudeyskaya volosts, and in the migration movement itself, there was a communal spirit and a desire for collective, “herd” living, regardless of the place of origin. However, one cannot ignore the factor of internal migration among Belarusians, who moved from one volost to another and even went to other counties.

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