in 1915, chechersk received the right to self-government, the so-called magdeburg law, at the same time a special building was built for the rada, a wooden town hall, which has not survived to this day. about this there is not much historical data about the monument. it is known that the town hall once stood in the middle of a large square, had a large clock with... a guard stood on its tower, announcing the arrival of guests. near the town hall there were shops, about 76. the rest of the information often excludes each other and can only confuse. it is impossible, for example, to find out how many storeys the town hall had. all sources give a different number of storeys, probably depending on what each of the authors understood by the word storey. we do not know the original. yes, neither the author, nor the exact time of its construction. in 1772, after the division of the pospalita speech, chechersk became part of the russian empire. and already... a year later, in 1773, the town passed into the possession of zakhar grigorievich chernyshov. at the insistence of the russian commander