Biography of Kobrin

According to legend, the city founded a descendant of the Kyiv Prince Izyaslav on the site of a fishing settlement, which, since time immemorial, which existed on an island formed by the Delta of the marshy river Kobrinka when it flew into Muhavets. Here the castle was laid. The first written mention of the city of Kobrin is found in the Ipatiev Chronicle in the record of the year, when this area was part of the Vladimir-Volyn principality.

And since the year, the specific Kobrin Principality stood out, which existed until the first quarter of the 16th century. After that, the city became the center of the Kobrinsky hang and was transferred three times “for feeding” to the lifelong use of the Korolevs - Bon, Anna Yagellonka and Constance of the Austrian. In the year, Kobrin received city self -government and his coat of arms.

He burned, the soldiers ravaged him and devastated the epidemics. Brought to the extreme degree of decline, Kobrin in the year was deprived of urban self -government and was reduced to the role of the center of the economic unit - the "Kobrin Key". In September, Russian troops, under the command of A. Suvorov, for four days won three victories in the so -called Lithuanian corps of General Serakovsky in Kobrins - in the divin, Kobrin and at the Krupchitsky monastery.

After a four -century violent rejection of the year, Kobrin's reunion with Russia occurred. Then Suvorov received “in the eternal and hereditary possession” “Kobrinsky Key”, in which he lived in the years. In the year, Kobrin was on the extreme left flank of the theater of military operations. Four banners and eight guns were captured in the battle, about 2 were surrendered to captured.

From the beginning of the 19th century, the county city of the Grodno province, Kobrin could serve as a classic example of an unremarkable provincial outback. So, if there were seven streets in the city in the city, then by the beginning of the twentieth century, the number of them increased only by half. True, the population growth was more significant, and by the census of the year it reached 11 thousand, including 6.

Moreover, the reconstruction of the Dnieper-Bug Canal and the regulation of the Mukhavets River, which became alloy water arteries, refers. In the early xs, a railway lay along the northern outskirts of the city. According to statistics, at that time in the city there were one and a half dozen microscopic enterprises with the number of workers from two to a person.

In the year, the small nobleman of the Kobrinsky structure Romuald Troutut organized a rebel detachment here. Subsequently, he became the dictator of the Polish uprising, after which he was executed. The events of the first Russian revolution, which quickly reached the Polesie Glukhomani, deeply stirred up Kobrins: strikes and demonstrations took place in the city.

In many villages of the county, mass performances of peasants began against landowners. The troops took part in their suppression, and for a number of years the city and county were in the situation of enhanced guard. The First World War fell upon Kobrins in August. The approach of the front forced the population to leave the raised places and evacuated into the depths of Russia.

In the county, up to 28 thousand households were destroyed by war. The return of thousands of refugees to their native places lasted up to a year. At the end of July, Kobrin was released from Belopolyakov, and the district military revolutionary committee was organized in the city, whose activities lasted until mid-September. The next two decades of the Polish bourgeois-landing rule were marked by the oppressive stagnation in all areas of folk life.

Even the number of urban population remained stable, which was explained by huge emigration to the foreign lands caused by a chronic economic crisis and unemployment. The advanced part of the youth was actively involved in the revolutionary struggle. Underground organizations of the CPZB headed mass demonstrations and strikes of the working people. The Novoselkovsky uprising of the year in a wide echo spread throughout the country and far beyond its borders.

After the reunification of Kobrin with Soviet Belarus in September, a violent restructuring of all sides of folk life began, abruptly breaking off at dawn on June 22. The three-year-old Nazi occupation exceeded all the trials that had ever fallen to Kobrin in its entirety history. In the city alone, the Nazis destroyed seven thousand inhabitants, and in the area they completely burned several villages with the entire population.

But on the earth of Kobrins, the struggle against the invaders did not stop for a single day. In the deep rear of the enemy, the partisans destroyed thousands of Nazis, hundreds of enemy echelons and vehicles were blown up on mines. The twelve most distinguished in the battles for the city military units were assigned the honorary name of the "Kobrin". Nowadays, Kobrin has become a significant industrial and cultural center of the region and in basic indicators is occupied by fourth place among the cities of Brestchina.

Almost all enterprises arose here in the post -war years.The metallurgical industry is represented by instrumental, auto -repair and tractor repair plants; Food - a tin plant, an oil -rawar plant, a bakery, a poultry farm; Light - flax plant, sewing, weaving and furniture factories. In addition, two plants of reinforced concrete building structures and a building materials plant operate here.

There are several general educational and special schools in the city, two mass libraries, two cinemas, the house of pioneers, the district house of culture, two clubs. Tens of thousands of tourists visit Kobrin annually. They get acquainted with the expositions of the A. Military-Historical Museum is very popular among guests and a city park, created 25 years ago in the A.'s estate, a monumental monument in the center of Kobrin, built in the year in the year, is in the year to commemorate Napoleon’s troops within Russia, a monument to Suvorov’s work of the Leningrad sculptor Chebotarev and a monument to the Bratskoye Bratskoye The grave of Soviet soldiers who fell on the hydroelectric network of the Dnieper-Bug Canal, located on the outskirts of Kobrin.