Rechke
village in Kryvasieĺski sieĺsaviet, Viliejka district, Belarus
Rechke (Belarusian: Рэчкі, Yiddish: רעטשקי) is a village in Belarus, located on the Zhuchka River. It is part of the Krivoselsky Village Council (Krivoselsky Selsoviet) in the Vilyeyka District of the Minsk Region.
Rechke is an old shtetl of the historical Ashmyany region (part of the Vilna Governorate).
History
In 1859, Rechke had 21 households. In 1864, Russian authorities opened a public school in the area. By 1866, the town had 24 households. In 1886, Rechke was part of the Rabun volost and had 26 households, a church, a synagogue, a school, a windmill, and 2 taverns.
The public source identifies “Rechke” as village in Kryvasieĺski sieĺsaviet, Viliejka district, Belarus. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rechke, village and Kryvasieĺski.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16715082. Authority coordinates are 54.583, 27.093. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1859, 1864, 1866 and 1886.
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This entry incorporates text from “Rechke” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.