Brest, Belarus
Streets and Squares

Komsomolskaya Street


The street is 0.7 km. long, running north to south, from Ordzhonikidze Street to Svobody Square

The previous names:

Russian period
Voznesenskaya ulitsa

 

    Polish period
ulica Steckiewicza

It was named after Polish Army Capatain Wladyslaw Steckiewicz who perished in the battle with German troops in February 1919.

 

    Soviet period

Komsomolskaya ulitsa


The main attraction in the street

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This vase-like fountain by the foot-bridge leading  to the railway station is over 50 years old. The foot-bridge is seen in the background. Only in the 1970s it replaced the old foot-bridge that was constructed before WW1.
 

  

On a hot summer day (August 2007)

 

 

The view from the foot-bridge in the 1930s

 

The view from the foot-bridge in the 1916. Kaiser officers are seen in the picture. The Brest vodka distillery is seen in the background.

 

The same view from the foot-bridge today.

2009

The Brest vodka distillery      Komsomolskaya Str.         A new office building

 
Glimpses of the street
 

That is the first sight beheld by visitors to Brest, as they walk from the station along the said foot-bridge.

The fountain is now behind you. Here Komsomolskaya Street meets Ordzhonikidze Street.

 

      

 A big new office building is being built at the corner on the right.
Kleopatra shop is on the left.
It has replaced small dilapidated prewar structures.
 
 
On the eastern side an old hotel adjoins the Kleopatra shop.
 
 
   
 
Today it is Molodezhnaya (Youth) Hotel.
 
 
Trolleybuses run along the street. The house with columns is at the corner of Mitskevich Street, it was built in the late 19th century. The picture was taken in April 2007 during the reconstruction of Mitskevich Street
 

 

At the corner of Mitskevich Street in July 2008

 

 

     

The red brick houses in the street saw both World Wars

 

 

                

    Here Komsomolskaya Street meets Pushkin Street.
On the left is Magellan Restaurant with an Internet Cafe upstairs
 
 
Spring is coming
 
 
That was a restaurant in the interwar period, now it houses a tavern with oriental specialties upstairs and a grocery shop downstairs
 
       
 
A new block of flats is growing up on the eastern sideof the street  between  Mayakovsky Street and Gogol Str.
 
 
 
The old and new meet in the street. This picture, taken in May 2007, is now history. In the course of construction the cottage was pulled down like several other wooden cottages on the site.
 
 
Now the block of flats has been built.
 
 
 
 
The view of the corner of Komsomolskaya Street and Mayakovsky Street in 2009
 
 
....  and 3 years ago
 
 
 
 
Here the street comes to Svobody Square
 
 
This place in winter..
 
 
 
... and in summer after a rain.
 
This point after the reconstruction in summer 2007
 
 
Here Komsomolskaya Street meets Gogol Street and Svobody Square
 
 
       
 
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