Korma

Karma – аadministrative center of the Karma district of the Gomel region. The urban village is located on the right bank of the Sozh River at the confluence of the Kormyanka River. The city is located at a distance of 264 km from Minsk, 110 km from Gomel. The RZ0 highway (Gomel - Vetka - Chechersk - Yamnoye) passes through the urban village.

The first mention of Karma dates back to 1596 and at that time the place was in the possession of gentry families. After the first partition of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, Karma became part of the Russian Empire and was in the possession of the Bykovsky family. At the end of the XIX century there were 200 courtyards in the town. At the beginning of the twentieth century the place belonged to the noblewoman Ekaterina Bykovskaya.

On January 1, 1919, Karma became part of BSSR, but on January 16, the settlement, along with part of the lands of eastern Belarus, was transferred to the RSFSR. In 1924 Korm was returned to the BSSR. On September 27, 1938 Karma received the official status of urban-village settlement. During the Great Patriotic War from August 15, 1941 to November 26, 1943, Karma was under German occupation. The flag and coat of arms of Karma were approved on September 22, 2000.

In Karma a number of XIXth-XXth century sights have been preserved. So at the entrance to Karma from the side of Chechersk on a high hill there are ruins of St. Nicholas Church, which was built in 1831. With the advent of Soviet power, the temple was closed and until the 1960s the building was used for household needs, and later the building of the former church fell into disrepair.

On the outskirts of Korma, in the former village of Sarsk, the former manor house of Doria-Dernalovich, economic and industrial buildings of the late XIX - early XX century are preserved. In 1905 the owners of the manor built a starch factory, which in 1912 - 1914 was reequipped as a distillery, which operated until 1996. In the post-war period, for some time the manor house was used as an orphanage, then a secondary school functioned there. Currently, buildings are not used.

In memory of the evacuated villages of the area affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant monument to resettled villages is installed .

Karma is a venue for the festival «Linen carousel», which is dedicated to flax and flax production.