Amelkovscina(Омельковщина)

 village, interesting place

According to written sources, the village was known since the beginning of the XIX century as a settlement in the region Malodush-Rechitsa, in the Minsk province. In 1811 the owned Rakytsky family.
In 1879, the number of designated villages Malodush area. In 1897 there was a trade in the supply of bread. Business was next to a farm near the same name.
On 8 December 1926 there was a general council and the district center omelkovcina Chojniki-Rechitsa of 9 June 1927 to 26 Gomel district in July 1930 and 20 Forest District in February 1938, 8 February 1954 the Gomel region. In 1930 near the village were discovered deposits of iron ore.
In 1930 the school was built, the department of consumer cooperatives. In 1931 in the village working steam mill and sawmill. Organize and basic agricultural farm here called " Leninist path. "During World War II in the village and surrounding forests established guerrilla group named after the master AV Suvorov. In January 1943 the village guerrillas fought against German troops of the Allies. In June 1943 the Germans burned down 135 homes and killed 54 civilians. The partisan resistance fighting killed 252 civilians in villages of Omelkovscina circuit. In memory of killed in the village in 1970, was erected a statue of a warrior.In 1959 the village was the center of an agricultural cooperative called " Leninist path," There was farm management.In 1968 he joined the village community Omelkovscina.Due to radioactive contamination after the Chernobyl accident were 173 families displaced in places that are not contaminated with radiation.
In this village was a Slovak soldier in 1942, Paul Kralčák-Slovak soldier who participated in the second World War II as a soldier of Slovak state. He was a member of Slovak Army, of Infantry Regiment, 103rd, No. II. Reinsurance Guard Division. Paul said that "the wooden village at that time was heavily damaged and there were many houses destroyed by artillery . " The soldiers in the village to stop shifting the forest to the village where Demechy where they boarded a military train. One of the soldiers found on wall of linen embroidered with religious motives which alone the ruined wall of fire was miraculously undamaged. Soldier got the idea that the embroidery placed and fastened in military boots, because his socks (wrapped canvas) were wet. His fellow soldiers convince him that it is a religious symbol. He ignored it and put it into shoes. The next day, somewhere in the village Maladuscha stepped on Soviet anti-tank mine , which exploded and snapped him up among the trees. The explosion he uncovered the bones of the legs to the knees and the floor when hit bottom is inserted with them into the wet clay.
The soldiers considered this in connection with the embroidery fateful portent. Paul was a soldier was later transported to Italy, the city of Naples. He returned as a prisoner, because the soldiers in Ravenna town rebelled against the Slovak military fascist regime. The freedom from arrest came during the bombing of Bratislava 16th 6th 1944 15 U.S. Air Force. Soldier Paul died in 2002 aged 82 years .


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