Kudrychy or Kudrichi (; ; ) is a village in

Pinsk District Pinsk district (; ) is a districts of Belarus, district (raion) of Brest region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Pinsk, which is administratively separated from the district. As of 2024, it has a population of 40,741. Demographics At the ...

, Brest Region,

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

. It is part of Kalavuravichy

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. It is located in the National Landscape Reserve of Middle Pripyat.

Belarusian Venice

Kudrichi

Polesie Polesia, also called Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye, is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the East European Plain, including the Belarus–Ukraine border region and part of eastern Poland. This region shoul ...

was hidden from the world by three rivers – Yaselda, Pina and Pripyat River, Pripyat, as well as low-lying Swamp, swamps. In the spring, during spills, Kudrichi floods so that local residents have to move from house to house by boats called “seagulls”, leading to its sobriquet, "Belarusian Venice". Boats are more common than horses. Sometimes horses were transported by boats, as arable land was far away.

Economy

The main occupations of Poleshuks were fishing, beekeeping and agriculture. They took their products by river to Pinsk, for sale.

History

When first mentioned in 1555, the lands were owned by Bona Sforza, and the settlement belonged to the Franciscans, Franciscan monastery in Pinsk. The village hosted 125 houses and only 10 inhabitants. The village is thought to have been used as a place of exile for criminals or those who angered authorities, among many theories. After the construction of the road in the 1980s, the residents left.

“Polish province” by Louise Arner Boyd

The village was described by American traveler Louise Arner Boyd in 1934. Her expedition in the swamps to Pripyat led to the Belarusian village. ''"Usually swamps are described as something extremely flat and monotonous, which I did not see here, because my main goal was only the locals... Living on the waterways or among them, create a kind of ethnic core that distinguishes these people from others".'' As a result of her expedition, in 1937 in New York she published a photo album entitled ''Polish Province'' (''Polish Countryside''). The village was left untouched by war due to its remote location. During the World War II, Second World War, German soldiers burned a neighboring village; Kudrichi was not touched for unknown reasons. By order of Nikita Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev, a tractor driver destroyed an 18th century church in the village.

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Полесская деревня Кудричи

Кудричи: полесский скансен или болотный мираж

"Bialorusini jej nie znaja"
Villages in Belarus Populated places in Brest region Pinsk district