Brest, Belarus, streets

Brest, Belarus

Streets and Squares

Lenin Street

The street is stretching 1.7 km south to north, between Internatsionalnaya Street and Ordzhonikidze Street , is mostly lined with administrative buildings.

The previous names:

Russian period: Bulvarny Prospect

Polish period: ulica Unii Lubelskiej (Union of Lublin Street )

Soviet period: Lenin Street

Here Lenin Street meets Masherov Avenue.

At the northwestern corner you see a landmark in the shape of a rock and the Rescued Artistic Treasures Museum next to it.

at the southwestern corner is a war memorial and a part of the former City Park

The rock commemorates the ever first record of the town in 1019.

In a few years Brest will celebrate its millennium.

In the background is the Museum of Rescued Artistic Treasures

on the western side.

Museum of Rescued Artistic Treasures

The old mansion, dating from the 1930s, houses a huge collection of objects d'arts that have been rescued from smuggling abroad, it was opened in 1989

Music School

above the old pictures

After the facade was refurbished the picturesque ivy carpet has gone from the front wall.

On the right side is Ikonnikov Mini-Park.

The mini-park on the western side of the street was named after Soviet General Ikonnikov, who is remembered by a monument (above)

During the liberation of Brest in 1944 he was deadly wounded

An old building in the mini-park before the reconstruction

The building after the reconstruction

The Drama Theatre is seen in the background on the western side of the street.

Till 1915, vast vacant space was stretching from Brest Fortress to the street, that was the official boundary of Brest in those days.

The boundary was marked by markers made of stones.

In the foreground is the only boundary marker that survived, dating from the 19th century. It is at the north-western corner of Gogol Street and Lenin Street.

The text in Old Russian style reads that it marked the border of the fortress from 1836 till 1915.

Before WW1, there were no structures but a redbrick barrack on the western side ofthe street .

Drama Theatre: The building was reconstructed in the early 2000s. Annually, it hosts the international theater festival Belaya Vezha (White Tower).

During the festival

Two amusing masks appeared in 2007 near the theatre to remind the people of the theater art.

on the eastern side

Puppet Theatre

The puppet theatre is opposite the drama theatre. The stage is used for performances of the festival

N.Gogol Bust: was put up in 1962, to commemorate the famous Russian writer of the 19th century N. Gogol. It stands at the corner of Gogol Street and Lenin Street. The picture was taken in August 2007 after the reconstruction of Gogol Street

The hanging planters at the corner of Gogol Street and Lenin Street

The old houses on the eastern side opposite the theatre

Lenin Street crosses Lenin Square, the Civic Center of Brest.

It is a vast rectangular plaza, measuring 200 by 100 m, bordered by office buildings and a Roman Catholic church

the view before the reconstruction of Lenin Square

The view after the reconstruction of Lenin Square

Brest Regional Administration
The building was constructed on the western side of the square in the mid-1930s. Today it houses the government of the Brest region.

National Bank of Belarus. Brest Department

The building was constructed in mid-1920s. It is in the northwestern corner of Lenin Square.

The picture was taken in 2003 before the reconstruction of Lenin Square. The trees of rare specimen were nice in spring, when they were swamping in pink blossom. They were rather old. Therefore they were cut during the reconstruction. Sorry, a better picture of the blooming trees is not available

The newest Brest's fountain appeared in the square in 2007

The northwestern corner with the bank

The western side with the regional administration

The southern side with the Roman catholic church in the background

The eastern side with an after-war office building

Day of the City,

July 2008

the march of Brest orchestras give a start too the festivities

The flag of Brest flies high


Roman Catholic Church: The church was constructed in the 1850s on the eastern side after all the Catholic churches were closed in the old town in the course of the construction of the Brest Fortress. It was consecrated in 1856 and devoted to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It borders Lenin Square. It was reconstructed in the 1950s to house a museum.
In the late 1990s the building was returned to the Catholic community. The church was reconstructed again to restore the original view. It was reconsecrated. As a gift the church got a nice organ from Germany.

At the southeastern corner of the square is the official landmark called the zero milepost of Brest to measure distances from the town.

This milepost looks cool among the Colorado spruces on a crispy winter day

Christmas tree in Lenin Square

the City Park meets you at the end of the street on its western side close to the railway bridge and station.

It was laid out in 1906.

The main entrance to the park.

a walk across the park

At the corner of Ordzhinikidze Street on the eastern side of Lenin Street is Hotel Bug, that is 50 years old.

It was named after the Bug River, not creeping bugs.

It will undergo reconstruction in coming years. Yet nobody is going to change its name.

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