Attractions of Snovsk

The Snovsk Historical Museum was opened in 1939 as a memorial museum of Mykola Shchors in the house where the future Red Commander, whose image was heroized in Soviet literature and cinema, spent his childhood and youth.

Shchors was born in 1895 in the village of Korzhivka in Chernihiv Region (now the city of Snovsk) in the family of a railway mechanic. Currently, the exposition of the home furnishings and personal belongings of the Shchors family, located in their wooden house built in 1894, is the memorial department of the Snovsk Historical Museum and presents the life of the railway worker's family at the end of the 19th century.

In 1961, the historical department of the museum was opened in a separate building with a local history exposition from ancient times to modern history. The exposition presents objects that tell about the first human settlements on the territory of the region, folk crafts and crafts, ethnographic features of the area. The decoration of the exhibition is a collection of towels from the Snovsk district and samples of regional costumes.

The museum also exhibits archaeological finds: objects of labor, remains of ancient animals, ceramic and glass products, Cossack cradles, railway products made at medieval mines, historical and household items of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.