People settled here in the IX century, a wooden castle was built by the Russian princes. In 1241 it destroyed the Mongol-Tatars, but in the ancient chronicles mention of this. The first information about the town Cherleny (lat Castrum Rubrum.) - In the chronicle Bihovtsya from 1351.

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