Pushkin Street

The street is 2.7 km. long, runs from Lenin Street to Skripnikov Street

The previous names:

Russian period

ulitsa Pushkinskaya  west of the railway crossing

ulitsa Minskaya  east of the railway crossing

 

 

Polish period

"ulica 3 Maja" (3d May Str) west of the railway crossing,

"ulica 9 Lutego" (9th February) east of the crossing


A stretch of "ulica 3 Maja" between Steckiewicz St. and Dluga St. was a pedestrian precinct, that was called "Gaz". The origin of the name is not quite clear.

Brest, Pushkin Street


In the passage below from the Book "Brest Unforgettable Town" there is a suggestion that the youth were lured by the street. They used to rush to it after classes,  saying "Step on the gas!".  Hence the Polish name "gaz" (gas).

Brześć posiadał swoj deptak nazywany „Gazem", przypuszczalnie dlatego, że młodzież bardzo się nań spieszyła; był to odcinek 3 Maja, między ulicą Steckiewicza a Długą.

Another version belongs to Moysey Sare, who suggests that the Polish name derived from the Yiddish word "gass" (street)


Soviet period

Pushkinskaya ulitsa


The main attractions in the street

Brest, Pushkin Street

The house was built in the 1930s. Today it houses the Russian consulate

Brest, Pushkin Street


Glimpses of the street

Brest, Pushkin Str.
Here by Lenin Square the street starts

Brest, Pushkin Str.

"Mir" cinema

Brest, Pushkin Str.

Brest, Pushkin Str.

at the corner of Sovietskaya Street

Brest, Pushkin Str.

The roofed market was built in the mid-1980s. Looking from the corner of Kuybyshev Street at the market.
A view in 2006

Brest, Pushkin Str.
Brest, Pushkin Str.

A view in September 2004

Brest, Pushkin Str.

A view in November 2009


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