Snovsk

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Urban locality in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

title: "Snovsk" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cities-in-chernihiv-oblast", "cities-of-district-significance-in-ukraine", "gorodnyansky-uezd", "former-soviet-toponymy-in-ukraine", "holocaust-locations-in-ukraine"] description: "Urban locality in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snovsk" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Urban locality in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
settlement_type	City
subdivision_type	Country
official_name	Snovsk
native_name	Сновськ
subdivision_name
image_skyline	File:Сновск вокзал.jpg
image_caption	Snovsk railway station
subdivision_type1	Oblast
subdivision_name1	Chernihiv Oblast
parts_type	Control
parts_style	para
p1	Ukraine
population_total	10620
population_as_of	2022
population_est	10468
pop_est_as_of	2025
pop_est_footnotes
area_total_km2	12,8
established_date	1860
established_title	Founded
established_date1	1924
established_title1	City status
elevation_m	119
pushpin_map	Ukraine Chernihiv Oblast#Ukraine
coordinates
subdivision_type2	Raion
subdivision_type3	Hromada
subdivision_name2	Koriukivka Raion
subdivision_name3	Snovsk urban hromada
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Name

Historically, the city was named after the Snov River on which it is situated. The city was called Shchors between 1935 and 2016, in honour of Nikolay Shchors. On 21 May 2016, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) adopted a decision to change the name of Shchors back to its original Snovsk and consequently renaming Shchors Raion to Snovsk Raion, in accordance with the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.

History

On the eve of the Second World War, about 16% of the population was Jewish (1,402 Jews). The Germans occupied the city on September 3, 1941. They kept the Jews prisoners in a ghetto and subjected them to perform different kinds of forced labor. In 1941 and 1942, hundreds of them were murdered in mass executions perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen in the nearby forest.

Until 18 July 2020, Snovsk was the administrative center of Snovsk Raion (before 2016, Shchors Raion). The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Snovsk Raion was merged into Koriukivka Raion.

On the evening of February 24, 2022, Russian forces took the bypass road around the city, and the Ukrainian flag remained over the city council building the next morning. The Russian military entered the city on 25 March and detained the mayor, who was later released.

References

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(2020-07-18). "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.".
(17 July 2020). "Нові райони: карти + склад". Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
Юлія Суржикова. (2022-02-25). "Яка ситуація у населених пунктах на Чернігівщині, де є російські війська". [[Suspilne]].
"The price of freedom: the story of Snovsk mayor's release from captivity - MIHR".

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