land. Industry in Skorupy appeared already in the 1860s together with the construction of a textile plant by Albrecht Adolfai Scharlotta Zoi from Riedlów Reich from the Polish Kingdom. It is not known when exactly the Reichs arrived in Białystok. In the 1920s and 1830s, the couple lived in Ozorków, a small town in the Zgierz poviat, where Albrecht worked as a dyer. Before 1869, Reicho acquired land from Aleksander Kruzensztern, located between the Biała River and the road to Zabłudów (today ul. Nowowarszawska), west of the former development of the village of Skorupy (today partly estates at Nowowarszawska street The development of Bialystok in terms of demographics and economics after 1944 left its mark on the former village of Skorupy, where within a few decades new arable land in the suburbs began to develop at a rapid pace, spilling out of wastelands often planless, chaotic and in uncontrolled manner. This concerned especially the areas located east of the center of the former village between the old streets of Zaścieńska, Zbożowa and Kujawska, where a real thicket of single-family houses situated on plots arose, perpetuating with its characteristic outline and arrangement the old ownership divisions. Serious spatial changes in the former village of Skorupy also occurred in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century with the emergence of large investments - large-scale housing estates (Piasta Ii Piasta II) and the construction of new urban thoroughfares, including today's ul. Piastowska and Jana Klemens Branicki. Construction movement after 1989 is continued by private entrepreneurs. The area of the Skorupy district was defined by the Resolution of the Miejska Rada Narodowa in Białystok (city parliament in the communist period) of November 31, 1959 on establishing the districts of the city of Bialystok: currently the Skorupy district is concluded is within: railway track to Krynki, Szosa Zambrowska, Biała river and Dolistówka river. Skorupska street is an old trail along which the land border ran between the villages of Bojary and Skorupy. < External links References Skorupy