- 1545: Hlushkovichy, Hlushkowskaye “Sialo Hlushkevichi Alizarovaye Volchkovicha”. According to the inventory of the Ovruch castle, “in the village of Hlushkowskaye, service of people, taxes from them are one and a half kopa* of groschen*”.
- 1551: Hlushkevichy, village of Kyiv powiat (district). January 18, the zemiane* Harasim Andrejevich, Vasil Bahdanovich, Vasil Patzkevich and Bahdana-Alizaravaya Volchkovicha complained against the widow of Prince Yury Ivanovich Dubrovitsky, Princess Maria Andreyeuna, and her son Prince Siamion Yuryevich Dubrovitsky, stating that the latter’s people from the “Prybalavetskaye” estate committed against them and their “Hlushkowskaye” people wrongs and great damages through violence, robberies, seizure of arable and hayfield lands, burning of a mill, digging up of a pond, etc.
- March 8: The court of the Lords of the Council heard the complaint of the mentioned zemiane, from which, among other things, it follows: in 1550, the subjects of the defendant from the villages of Rychau and Prybalavichy, under the leadership of a serviceman of the Dubrovitsa estate, Pinsk powiat, made an attack, “they dug up their own dam on the Raka Kortsu, and burned three log houses (kletki) and took the mill irons from their log houses”, “rode into their village Hlushskaye”, committed robberies and murders of people.
- 1621, December 22: Hlushkevichy (“Hluszkevicze”), village of Ovruch powiat, Kyiv voivodeship, Crown of Poland. During the demarcation of the Mazyr (to Lithuania) and Ovruch (to Poland) powiats, the boundary line ran from the village of Vaitkevichy of the Vilnius Chapter to the village of Hlushkevichy and further across the Ubarć River to the village of Koshyščy and to the lands of the Kamianetskaya volost.
- 1667: 3 noble and 29 peasant farms; instead of another 16 peasant farms, there were wastelands.
- 1754: Visitation of the local church.
- 1757, April 5: Recommendation by the rector of the Krasnastaw College, Father Antoni Seniuta, probably for the position of Hlushkevichy chaplain, for Father Stefan Shamiatyla.
- 1759 (?): Pinsk and Turaŭ Bishop Yury Bulhak ordains into the priesthood and installs Father Stefan Shamiatyla to the position of Hlushkevichy chaplain.
- 1761, January 31: Visitation of the local church.
- 1771: Visitation of the local church.
- 1777, January 19: Hlushkevichy (“Hluszkevicze”), village. 60 households. Uniate parish church of the Holy Trinity, Ubarć Deanery, Turaŭ Diocese, under the patronage of the Vilnius bishop. Father Stefan Shamiatyla has been serving as Hlushkevichy parish priest for 18 years.
- 1779, May 31: Pinsk and Turaŭ Bishop Gideon Harbatski confirms, probably, Father Ignacy Epifanovich in the position of Hlushkevichy parish priest and chaplain.
- 1787, February 19: Hlushkevichy (“Hluszkevicze”), village. 70 households. Father Ignacy Epifanovich is the administrator of the Hlushkevichy parish church under the patronage of the Vilnius bishop.
- April 23: Major-General of the Russian troops Salogub gives a recommendation, probably for the position of Hlushkevichy chaplain and parish priest, for Father Ignacy Epifanovich.
- 1799, January 10: Hlushkevichy, village. 82 households, 565 inhabitants (294 male and 271 female). Parish Holy Trinity Church of Brest (former Turaŭ) Diocese, Mazyr powiat, under the patronage of Major-General of the Russian troops Salogub. Father Ignacy Epifanovich has been in the position of Hlushkevichy chaplain for 20 years. Elected church wardens (ktitary) by the community: Ivan Zubryieu, Siamion Dzyam’yanau, Stefan Bratusia, Zakhar Tsimoshau. A Jewish leaseholder is mentioned.
- 1800, February 20: Hlushkevichy, village. 82 households, 561 inhabitants (290 male and 271 female).
- 1802: Lukshevichy (“Lukshevichi”), village.
- 1806: Conversion of the parish of the Hlushkevichy church from Uniatism to Orthodoxy.
- 1808: Hlushkevichy, village of the Turaŭ estate. Boundary dispute with the owner of the Alevsk estate.
- 1815, February: Hlushkevichy, village of the state-owned Turaŭ estate. 74 homesteads, 436 inhabitants. The peasants had 6 horses, 126 oxen and bullocks, 60 cows and calves, 140 sheep, 114 beehives. Cloth production, production of millstones. 2 mills and a tavern.
- 1818: Hlushkevichy, village. Owner: Prince Eugen of Württemberg.
- 1821: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”, “Hluszkevicze”), village on a through road.
- 1838, February 18: For uttering blasphemous words during the service in the Hlushkevichy church on May 20, 1836, the deacon Ivan Sulkowski is deprived of his spiritual rank; the case is transferred to the Mazyr district court.
- 1841, April 12: Hlushkevichy, village of the state-owned Turaŭ estate. The peasants refused to provide horses to the district police officer (stanovoy pristav). They complained against the village elders (sotskys) and decuryions (desyatskys) that they used the horses not only for police matters but also for personal travel and festivities, demanding tribute under the name “aseniny” (autumn gifts).
- 1842: 66 homesteads, 540 inhabitants.
- 1848: Book for recording marriage investigations (ordinary) of the Hlushkevichy Trinity Church.
- 1849, January 1: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”), village.
- 1850, October 8: Hlushkevichy, village of the Tonaž estate, Mazyr powiat. According to the revision tale of the Tonaž peasant administration, 591 inhabitants (275 male and 316 female).
- (1866): “Hlushkevichi”, village. 120 homesteads. 2 cemeteries.
- 1858, December 15: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”), village of the state-owned Tonaž estate. According to the verification and inspection inventory of the estate, the peasants had 2278.00 desiatinas* of land (70 full allotments), including 73.00 desiatinas* of homestead land; retired soldiers had 13.00 desiatinas* of only homestead land; the Hlushkevichy Orthodox clergy had 84.20 desiatinas* of suitable land; communal arable land – total 72.50 desiatinas. “5½ reserve allotments near the village of Hlushkevichy (178.70 desiatinas), at the request of the wealthier owners of this village and upon the assurance of the community of their reliability in paying the quitrent, are to be included, according to their current possession, into the… allotment, considering them one and a half… allotment holders (information on this on p. 15); likewise, the communal plowing land (72.50 desiatinas*), scattered in small plots near this same village, due to its remoteness from the farmsteads of this estate, is to be provided for the use of the local peasants, obliging them to deliver annually to the village store a specified amount of grain.”
- 1859: Hlushkevichy (“Hluszkevicze”). Church.
- 1862: Metrical books.
- 1863: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”), parish.
- 1866: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkovichi”). 68 homesteads, 302 inhabitants (138 male and 164 female). Church.
- 1867: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”), village of Tonaž volost, Mazyr powiat. Plan of the land of the village part of the Tonaž estate of Turaŭ: state forest, 5 allotments, boundary from the Vaitkevichy estate of landowner Rabtsevich and disputed land in the possession of landowner Bulhak.
- As a result of a fire, the Orthodox Holy Trinity Church burned down.
- 105 versts* from the David-Haradok church of the Pinsk deanery. 543 Orthodox; 5 Catholics, 2 homesteads.
- 1869: 137 homesteads.
- 1870, January 1: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”), village of the Hlushkevichy Peasant Society, Tonaž volost. 34 versts* from the volost administration. According to the revision, 236 former state peasants. Church.
- 1873: 735 peasants and 128 former soldiers. Construction, at the expense of the parishioners, of a new wooden Orthodox Holy Trinity church on a stone foundation to replace the burned-down one.
- 1875: Book for recording marriage investigations of the Hlushkevichy Trinity Church.
- 1879: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”), village. Holy Trinity Church. 889 parishioners (442 male and 447 female). The parish owns about 54 desiatinas* of land. 2 cemeteries at both ends of the village.
- 1884: Start of work of the church-parish school. Priest Mikhail Tamasheuski. 8 pupils.
- 1886: Hlushkevichy, village of Tonaž volost. 126 homesteads, 753 inhabitants. Church.
- 1889: “Hlushkevichi”, village of Tonaž volost. 35 versts* from the village of Tonaž and 70 versts* from the small town of Turaŭ. Orthodox church.
- 1897: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”), village of the Hlushkevichy Society, Tonaž volost. Parish church, chapel in the cemetery, church-parish chapel. 2 cobblers, 2 tailors, 2 small shops. Tavern. 202 homesteads, 1325 inhabitants (647 male and 678 female). According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1369 inhabitants, of which 140 Jews.
- 1898: Hlushkevichy, village. Water mill of peasant Alexei Shkaby.
- 1901: Church-parish school. The duties of the teacher were performed by Parfiry Bylinski.
- 1903: 112 desiatinas* of church land.
- 1909: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkevichi”), village of Tonaž volost. 35 versts* from the volost center, 50 versts* from the Alevsk railway station. 230 homesteads, 1470 inhabitants.
- 1911: “Hlushkevichi”. According to the ethnographic map of Prof. T. D. Florinsky, a Little Russian (Malorussian) settlement.
- Primary church school. Head – (since 1905) priest Konstantin Yasinski. 2 people completed the full course of the one-class school. Until December 20, the school register listed 52 Russian boys, of which 36 were in the first, 10 in the second, and 6 in the third grade.
- 1914: The position of Hlushkowskaye forester remains vacant.
- 1915: “Hlushkevichi”, village. 120 homesteads. Church. Lake.
- 1917: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkovichi”), village of Tonaž volost. 35 versts* from the volost center, 50 versts* from the Alevsk railway station. 279 homesteads, 1688 inhabitants (877 male and 811 female): 1559 Belorussians, 129 Jews.
- According to the clergy register (klirovaya vedomost’) of the Trinity Church, 202½ homesteads, 1629 parishioners (819 male and 810 female); besides that, 15½ Jewish homesteads, 132 inhabitants (62 male and 70 female). Church-parish school.
- 1921: Creation of the Hlushkevichy Village Council (selsoviet).
- 1924, July 17: Hlushkevichy, village, center of the Hlushkevichy Village Council of Lielčycy (Lelchitsy) district, Mazyr okrug. 320 households, 1766 inhabitants.
- 1925: “Hlushkovichi”, village. 320 households, 1766 inhabitants. School in the Belorussian language: 46 pupils (41 boys and 5 girls): 38 Belorussians, 13 Jews. 1.75 desiatinas* of arable land and 1 desiatina* of vegetable garden. Reading hut.
- 1929: “Hlushkevichy”. Organization of the kolkhoz “Peramoga” [“Pabieda” – Victory].
- 1930: 100 homesteads. Church. In the vicinity of the village, 2 border outposts. Residents of 9 homesteads (out of 307) joined the kolkhoz.
- 1933: Seven-year school.
- 1935: “Hlushkevichy”, village of Lielčycy (Lelchitsy) district.
- 1940: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkovichi”), village.
- 1942, December 16-20: Battles of partisans with the occupiers.
- December 27: “German-fascist punitive forces drove everyone who was in the village into a barn and shot 290 residents. Then they burned the village too. Only two houses that stood near the forest remained by a miracle. The people who remained alive began to live in dugouts. Some even made a house here in the forest.”
- 1943: The occupiers captured 7 residents in the field, pushed them into a cellar, and blocked the door with stones. They all died there of hunger, as there were no more people in the village. During the war, the village was destroyed three times.
- 1944: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkovichi”), village. Construction of an Orthodox prayer house.
- 1949, July: Joining of the prayer house to the parish of the Prybalavichy church.
- 1951, January 1: In the kolkhoz: 100 calves, 50 pigs, 60 sheep, 500 chickens; 2 automobiles, 1 seed drill, 2 winnowing machines.
- 1953: Hlushkevichy, village of Lielčycy (Lelchitsy) district.
- 1954, January 8: Center of the Hlushkevichy Village Council.
- 1957: Ten-year school.
- 1961: Closure of the prayer house at the request of the district authorities.
- 1974, December 31: Opening of a new 3-story secondary school for 444 places.
- 1975: Creation of the “Granit” quarry.
- 1976: Opening of the “Hlushkevichy” crushed stone plant with the “Sialyanskaya Niva” (Peasant Field) quarry and the “Nadzieya” (Hope) facing stone quarry.
- 1981, October 5: “Hlushkevichi”, village, center of the Village Council. 547 inhabitants.
- 1986: Hlushkevichy (“Hlushkovichi”), village, center of the Hlushkevichy Village Council of Lielčycy (Lelchitsy) district, center of the kolkhoz “Peramoga”.
- 1987: 670 homesteads, 2500 inhabitants. In the kolkhoz: 32 tractors, 25 automobiles, 8 combines, 6 seed drills.
- 1995: Consecration of the newly built church in honor of the Holy Trinity.
- 1996: 715 homesteads, 2367 inhabitants.
- 1997: Hlushkevichy, village of Lielčycy (Lelchitsy) district. Center of the Village Council and kolkhoz. 50 km southwest of Lielčycy (Lelchitsy), 257 km from Homiel (Gomel), 110 km from the Zhytkavichy railway station. Crushed stone plant, “Granit” quarry. Secondary school, House of Culture, library, hospital, pharmacy, post office. Church. Grave of the victims of fascism.
- 1999, January 1: Hlushkevichy (the name “Hlushkevichy” is encountered), village, center of the Hlushkevichy Village Council of Lielčycy (Lelchitsy) district. 722 households, 2368 inhabitants, of which 740 are working, 684 children under 15, 632 pensioners. According to the population census, 2379 inhabitants (1187 male and 1192 female).
Throughout its history, the settlement had different spellings of its name: Hlushkovichy and Hlushkowskaye (1545), Hlushkevichy (1622), Hlushkovichy (1924), Hlushkevichy (1953). The toponym is a characteristic name for a settlement located far from routes, in a remote place, in the backwoods (hlush), and it was very difficult to reach. An interesting opinion is the connection of this toponym with various meanings of the word: a stagnant river branch or a bay, as well as a plot of land at the end of developed territory, near a forest or an impassable swamp.
Some old-timers explain the name of the village as “a place rich in broods of wood grouse (hluštsy)”. Other local legends connect the origin of the village’s name with the surname Hlushkevich (which is characteristic of 16th-century settlements).
