Archaeological and Ethnographic Monuments of Smorgon District
Археолага-этнаграфічныя помнікі Смаргоншчыны
Мілы край мой,
Смаргоншчына-маці!
Дзе высокія сосны бароў,
Дзе ляжаць дываны-сенажаці
І бясконцае мора палёў.
Дзе харошыя, слаўныя людзі
Сустракаюць з усмешкай цябе,
Ты заходзь і гасцём у іх будзеш,
Будуць рады заўсёды табе.
Артур Цяжкі
Smorgon District is the land of our ancestors, which has ancient rich and diverse history. Courageous and talented people who glorified our land far beyond its borders live here. In Smorgon District there are 33 objects that are included on the State list of historical and cultural heritage of our republic. The exposition of our museum contains a number of finds of the Mesolithic era: the remains of the bones of extinct animals, including part of the mammoth tooth, products from the horn, silicon products, ceramics. All these exhibits were found on the territory of our district.
Archaeological and Ethnographic Monuments of Smorgon District
Smorgon site is one of the richest in Belarus by the number of found remains and species of fossil mammals. Currently, the Institute of Geochemistry and Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus stores about 7000 bones found in Smorgon District. The bones identify 23 species of fossil mammals (mammoth, cave lion, saiga, hairy rhinoceros, Etruscan rhinoceros, cave bear, Khazar horse, bison, Stenon horse, large-horned deer, reindeer, musk ox ...).
In our museum the flint tools and modified animal bones into specialised tools are on display . All of them were found on the territory of our district and are exceptionally valuable exhibits. According to the famous paleontologist Pyotr Kalinovsky, the formation of the rich Smorgon site of fossil mammals is most likely associated with the hunting of man who for many millennia lived on the left bank of the Viliya in this area.
These exhibits got into the museum after the construction of the Smorgon plant of silicate concrete products as gravel and sand are being extracted from the banks and bottom of the river Viliya to provide the plant with raw materials.
A part of the mammoth tooth found in the Smorgon locality of fossil animals (KP 6).
Donated to the museum by the local historian A.M.Bumay on November 15, 1996.
The remains of bone and flint tools found in the Smorgon locality of fossil animals (KP 9, KP 9 (1,2,3,4,5).
KP 9 - a horn ax with a drilled hole and a bifurcated blade;
length - 27 cm.
KP 9 (1,2,3,4,5) - the remains of flint tools.
Donated to the museum by Sofia Karlovskaya, a student, on November 26, 1996.
The flint ax found in the forest near the village of Soly, Smorgon district.
Donated to the museum by E. A. Baboit, a teacher of Smorgon Gymnasium, on October 9, 2004.
The fragments of bones of fossil mammals that were found in the Smorgon locality (KP 1072).
Donated to the museum by Eugene Zhalevich , a student, on November 19, 2005 .