The place is a suburb of New Sverzhen columns built on the left bank of the Neman. First mentioned in chronicles Sverzhno refers to 1428, when the legendary Duke Vytautas gave it to his wife Ulyana. Development of the city was due to the navigable river Neman. In the XVI century the river was put steam. On the banks of the river rose warehouses. Here, merchants receive, store and distribute their goods. Historical buildings of the city began from the river, and repeats its contours. The city was also famous porcelain factory of the Radziwill family, built in 1742 by Michael Kazimierz Radziwill Rybonka.

On the main shopping area of ​​New Sverzhen are two temples, which are high-rise landmarks of the city: the Peter and Paul Church and the Church of the Assumption. Assumption Church was built as a Uniate church in the typical Grand Duchy of Lithuania Vilnius Baroque style. In the middle of the XVIII century, the temple was rebuilt in the Orthodox Church. This temple witnessed the glory, miracles and death of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God Novosverzhenskoy. Ancient icon newfound by God's miracle, survived all the wars and fires, many times saving and healing people, but at the time of closing of the Assumption Church in Khrushchev's Soviet period, when the atheists rudely threw it in the truck, she crumbled to dust.

Peter and Paul Church was built as a Calvinist church. Amazing his harsh unyielding beauty, not characteristic of the temples of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1588 the church was handed over to the Catholic Church by Prince Radziwill Orphan - adamant opponent of the Calvinist faith. Who is the current church.

To this day preserved ancient water mill, renovated today.

In the Christian cemetery are the graves of Polish soldiers during the First World War. Strict Catholic mossy rows of crosses - is all that remains of the former military glory.

From the synagogue, built at the turn of XIX-XX centuries, today only ruins remain. But it keeps the old Jewish cemetery.