17th September Street

The street is named after the day Belarus was reunited on September 17, 1939. The street is 0.7 km.(.44 miles) long, runs from Svobody Square to Internatsionalnaya Street

The previous names:

Russian period

Topol(y)ovaya Street (Poplar Street)

Alas, no poplars are growing in the street today!

Polish period

ulica Topolowa, ulica Pereca (Peretz street) was named after the Jewish writer Yitskhok Leybush Peretz in the 1930s.

Soviet period

17th September Street

Old houses on the eastern side of the street

The house at the northeastern corner of Masherov Avenue is about 100 years old. Some old buildings in the street saw WW2.

A little house at the corner of Ostrovsky Street. A blue street water pump is seen at the corner. There are no such street pumps in Brest today. That house was pulled down in 2014. It underwent redevelopment like some others in the street in the 2010s.

The view of the same site after the redevelopment.

The office of the former local paper "Brestsky Kuryer" (Brest Courier). The picture was taken in 2010 before the redevelopment.

The western side of the street

A trolley-bus stop. Now it is closer to Masherov Ave

Trolley-buses get electricity from a pair of copper wires above.

the north-western corner of Dzerzhinsky Street and 17th September Street

The corner in 1915 with Kaiser officers and this building today.

One additional floor was built above.

In 2014, a new building in an old style was built at the north-eastern corner of Dzerzhinsky Street and 17th September Street

Along the eastern side further on

The view of the eastern side. The old balcony had authentic railings. The site underwent redevelopment in the 2010s.

Brest, 17th September Street, formerly Y.Perec Street

The site after the redevelopment.

Brest, 17th September Street, formerly 12, Y.Perec Street

The white house was Number 12 after WW2, Peretz Street before WW2. It was pulled down in 2010.

Visitors could enter the flats in the house from the backyards, passing through the passage, as there were no passages between the houses. The passage is seen in the picture taken in 2009.

This outline of the widow reminds of the former passage that was here before the redevelopment.

The house at the southeastern corner of Dzerzhinsky Street and 17th September Street.

The house, that is adjacent to the newly rebuilt one at the corner, was once a yeshiva.

Further on along the western side

Most of the buildings here look like painted ladies.

Only in December was it possible to take pictures of the low-rise houses on this side. In summer, they are hidden by the foliage of trees.

Here we finish our short stroll. Svobody Square is seen ahead.

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