The town is an ancient town that served as a bone of contention between Chernihiv, Kyiv Principality and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Many times the city has experienced attacks of enemies, change of authorities, fires and other natural disasters.

The city is situated in a picturesque location at the confluence of Cecora in the Sozh river.

After the first partition of Poland, the Empress Catherine the Great gave the town to the Governor General-field Marshal count Zachariah G. Chernyshova, famous for its aggressive nature and strong character. Such people wise Queen were selected for the Board in the newly acquired Polish and Belarusian lands, where was restless.

Under the leadership Chernysheva, in the city quickly put things in perfect order, built a town hall, three churches, the Church. The Governor was concerned not only about the daily needs of the inhabitants, but also about their leisure activities, so the town was built by the city theatre.

In our time the town suffered from radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl disaster. For a long time the town was a closed city. Now, the background radiation was normalized to the city again began to let tourists.

You should pay attention to the building of the town hall. It is very unusual and surprising for its architecture, not typical for the Belarusian town hall. The town hall was built in the late XVIII century.

Attracts attention is also very unusual Transfiguration Church. This two-story rotunda with a narthex and a bell tower built in the style of classicism. Also it will be interesting to watch the old nineteenth-century synagogue, which has become in our times of prayer the house of Baptist Christians.

Old distillery converted into a modern winery. For gray concrete fence you can see the painted building of the XIX century.

Is an abandoned and overgrown estate Chernyshev-Kruglikovs. Still preserved monumental housing, iron casting, graceful balconies. Perhaps the state may ever undertake the restoration of this property.