Chechersk

The town is situated on the river Sozh 67 kilometers away from Gomel. Chechersk was founded in the end of the 9th century on the site of the Zamkovaya Gora settlement at the junction of the Chechera and Sozh. It was first mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle in 1159 as the Radimichs' town Chichersk.

There are numerous architectural monuments and archaeological sites here, they are the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (1779-1783) with its unique icon of Ioann Kormiansky, the saint of the Belarusian Orthodox Church; the town hall (2nd half of 19th century, now the history and ethnography museum); the Chernyshev-Kruglikov family's country estate (1st half of 19th century), the Zamkovaya Gora ancient settlement, the town buildings of the late 19th - early 20th centuries; the Upper Paleolithic site near the village of Berdyzh, one of the oldest in Belarus, and burial mounds near the villages of Berdyzh, Zagorye, Zalesye, and Shepotovichi. Chechersk is on The Gold Ring of Gomel Land route itinerary.