The town of New Sverzhen is a suburb of Columns, built on the left Bank of the Neman. The first annalistic mention Severino refers to 1428, when the legendary Duke Vytautas gave it to his wife Ulyana. The development of the city was associated with a navigable river Neman. In the XVI century over the river ferry was put. On the banks of the river grew the warehouses. Here the merchants are accepted, stored and distributed their goods. Historical building of the city began from the river and follows its contours. The city was also famous earthenware factory Radziwill, built in 1742 by Mikhail Kazimir Radzivill Rybniky.

In the main market square of the New Svergina are two temples, which are high-rise landmarks of the city: the Peter and Paul Church and assumption Church. The assumption Church was built as a Unitarian Church in characteristic of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the Vilna Baroque style. In the middle of the XVIII century the Church was rebuilt in the Orthodox Church. This temple has witnessed the glory, miracles and death of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God Novomarjevskoj. Ancient icon bestowed on it by God's miracle, survived all the wars and fires, many times saving and healing people, but during the closing of the assumption Church Khrushchev in the Soviet period, when the godless roughly threw her into the truck, she crumbled into dust.

Peter and Paul Church was built as the Calvinist Church. Amazes his stern unyielding, natural beauty characteristic of the temples of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1588, the Church was transferred to the Catholic Church by Prince Radzivill Sirotka – adamant opponent of the reformed faith. Who is the current Church.

To this day preserved ancient water mill, rebuilt in our days.

On the cemetery are the graves of Polish soldiers during the First world war. Strict rows of mossy Catholic crosses is all that remains of the former military glory.

From the synagogue, built at the turn of XIX-XX centuries, now there are only ruins left. But kept the old Jewish cemetery.