Ethnographic complex "The Mill" and "The Forge"

The ethnographic complex is located near the railway station. It is a small open-air museum. Wooden, museified buildings of the end of XIX — beginning of XX centuries represent everyday local life and have original interiors. The complex consists of four objects: a mill (mlyn), a house of carriers, a swiran and a blacksmith's shop.

The steam mill in Zaslavl was built in 1910. The mill served the inhabitants of Zaslavl and its surroundings for many decades. In 1989 it was taken out of the Zaslavl district industrial combine and handed over to the historical and cultural reserve, which museumized this object and opened it to the public in 1990. In 1990-1996 the mechanisms of the mill were run by an electric motor to demonstrate their work to visitors. The motor was then stopped and sealed for fire safety reasons.

The house of the carriers is a kind of hotel built by the miller for those people who brought grain for milling, providing them with "both a table and a shelter". As it was a hundred years ago, the hut still welcomes guests. The barn, which stands behind the mill building, has a foundation made of fieldstones. Its facade is a gallery with a balcony, the railing of which is decorated with carvings. Inside, along the walls, there are grain bins. In the center are various containers woven from straw and vines, as well as made of oak rivets, under the stairs is a kufar — a chest in which brides kept their dowry.

Not a single village and not a single place was without a blacksmith: there was a great demand for metal products used in various spheres of life, including transportation, construction, agriculture and everyday life. A modern tourist can immerse himself in the world of this difficult, but very necessary to people handicraft in the forge, built in the first third of the twentieth century.