Krupki
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Krupki Крупкі |
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| Nickname(s): Krupka | |||
 Krupki district, Miensk province. |
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| Coordinates: 54°19′N 29°08′E / 54.317°N 29.133°ECoordinates: 54°19′N 29°08′E / 54.317°N 29.133°E | |||
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Country Subdivision |
Minsk Voblast | ||
| Government | |||
| • Chairman of the Krupki Region Executive Committee | Igor Chesnok | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 276.51 km2 (106.76 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 276.51 km2 (106.76 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 0.01 km2 (0.004 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 174 m (571 ft) | ||
| Population (2012) | |||
| • Total | 7,900 | ||
| Time zone | FET (UTC+3) | ||
| Area code(s) | +375 1796 | ||
![Flag of Krupki[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Krupki,_Belarus.PNG)
![Coat of arms of Krupki[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Krupki,_Belarus.png)
Krupki (Belarusian: Крупкі, Polish: Krupki, Russian: Крупки) is a small, rural town in Krupki Raion, near Mogilev, Belarus.
Krupki was founded in 1067 and existed during both the medieval Kingdom of Poland and of the great Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Krupki was then absorbed into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after which, the district was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793. Krupki became the administrative centre of its district and got its own council in 1900. The town’s coat of arms is a white, blue and yellow shield.
The old, wooden Bogoroditskaya Church in the nearby village of Hodovcy is a tourist site and of historic value.
The town's population was 1,800 (mostly Jewish) people in 166 houses, according to an 1895 Russian Encyclopedia, and 2,080 (largely non 'Hebrews') in 1926 as according to a similar reference book of 1961. There is no apparent evidence that any of Russia's endemic famines or pre-Revolutionary bread riots had broken out in Krupki town or its immediate environs.
The Yiddish Jewish settlement in Krupki is first noted in the 17th century and was thriving by the middle of the 18th century. About 40% of the Jews were employed as laborers and craftsmen and a Yiddish school was established in the town. There were three Hebrew schools in Krupki by the 1890s according to the 1895 Russian Encyclopedia.
About 75% of the local Jews fled the town during the Russian Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War, for either Western Europe or United States. Only 870 of them remained in situ by 1939. There were also small Polish, Poleszuk, Lithuanian and Roma settlements in Krupki.
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