Budyonny Street

The street is about 1 km long, running west to east, between Lenin Street to Kosmonavtov Boulevard, it crosses K.Marx Street, Sovietskikh Pogranichnikov Street, 17th September Street, Sovietskaya Street, Kuybyshev Street, Karbyshev Street

The previous names:

Russian period

Zbirogovskaya ulitsa

Polish period

ulica Listowskiego (Listowski Street)

Soviet period

Budyonnogo ulitsa (Budyonny Street) was named after Semyon Budyonny.

Glimpses of the street

Brest, Belarus, Budyonny Street, Drama theatre

Here by the Drama theater the street starts.

Brest, Belarus, Budyonny Street, Regional museum

This mansion at the southeastern corner of K.Marx Streett houses the Regional museum today. In the 19th century it was the flamboyant Hotel "Bristol".

Cross the street and you will see a modern structure of the builders' college at the southwestern corner of K.Marx Street.

The brick house at the southwestern corner of the street and Sovietskikh Pogranichnikov Street faces Svobody Square. The house saw two World Wars.

Standing at the corner, you can see the Drama theater at the distance.

Here the street makes up the southern border of Svobody Sq. An old mini-park occupies the major part of the square, seen to the left in the pictures (above). It was the main square of Brest till 1915.

This old building faces the square on the northern side.

Brest, Belarus, Budyonny Street, former court house

Old house in Budyonny Str., former court house

At the corner of 17 September Str. is the former court-house which was built before WW1, rebuilt in the Polish period, renovated some years ago.

Budyonny Str., bench remind of fire fighters

This bench reminds of the fire station, that was once across the street.

Brest, Belarus, Budyonny Street, cinema Belarus

Belarus Cinema is at the northeastern corner of Budyonny Street and Sovietskaya Street.
The cinema before the renovation.

The cinema after the renovation

The view of a night club with other entertainments opposite the cinema.

This house on the southern side between Sovietskaya Street and Kuybyshev Street was renovated in 2007.

A backyard.

There was an old redbrick building in this backyard, a silent witness of the horrors of the war-time in the Brest ghetto (1941-1942). (Right today's view) A new structure replaced the old one some years ago. Cinema Belarus is seen in the background.

There are no old structures along the street between Kuybyshev Street and Kosmonavtov Boulevard.

Brest, Belarus, Budyonny Street, supermarket

A supermarket in Kosmonavtov Boulevard.

Here the street meets the boulevard. That is the eastern end of Budyonny Street.