Talitsa (Slutsk district)


Talitsa is a vilage situated in the Slutsk District of the Minsk Region in Belarus, located 16 km east of Slutsk and 100.4 km South of Minsk. The terrain is flat and the village is located in a forested area. Talitsa is notable for having a single street, named Talitskaya, which features one "right-angle turn".

History

In 1852, Talitsa was first documented as a farmstead within the state-owned Vybranetskaye estate of Slutsk County, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire.
The permanent settlement began in 1854, when the hereditary nobleman Reutt Mikhail Fyodorov, originally from Meleshkevichi vilage, purchased land in the state-owned farmstead, built a house and settled there with his wife and children. Between 1854 and 1856, Mikhail Fyodorov's second cousin, Reutt Fyodor Danilov, bought adjacent land and also built a house closer to the "right-angle turn" street in the center of Talitsa. From 1854 onward, Talitsa was designated as a urochishche. By 1856, Talitsa was inhabited by nobles and townspeople and began to be called a hamlet. By 1856, the hamlet Talitsa had 6 households, including several members of the noble Reutt family, the Balvanovich family, and the Zabrodsky family.
From 1893 and until around 1919, Talitsa continued to be referred to as a hamlet in Slutsk Volost, Slutsk County, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire. From 1919, Talitsa became part of Slutsk District, Minsk Region, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The village had a contract school- on November 19, 1928, the villagers successfully submitted a request to open the school in one of the village houses. The school had 13-15 children in attendance and was maintained by the villagers, who provided the house and paid the teacher 55 rubles.
From September 20, 1944, to January 8, 1954, Talitsa was part of Slutsk District, Bobruysk Region, BSSR. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, there were 20 private farms in the Talitsa. The village had a blacksmith shop equipped with an anvil. There was also a public club, which was later repurposed as a store, standing to the left of the road at the entrance to Talitsa when coming from Boraki. For several years, around 1975, a regular bus service ran from Slutsk to Talitsa, with the bus stop located in the center of the village near the turn.

Cultural Highlights

  • The Talitsa Cemetery is located at the eastern edge of the village.
  • A significant memorial stands 1.7 km from Talitsa, deep in the forest in the direction of Soragi village. This monument to an unknown pilot marks the crash site of a Soviet plane shot down on June 21, 1941. The date marks the eve of the Great Patriotic War, and the identity of the pilot remains unidentified.