Brest, Belarus, Kuybyshev Street

The street is 1,3 km long, running north to south, from Ordzhonikidze Street to Internatsionalnaya Street

The previous names:

Russian period

Nikolayevskaya ulitsa, (Nicholas Street)

Dolgaya ulitsa, (Long Street)

Polish period

ulica Długa ( Long Street)

Soviet period

Kuybysheva ulitsa (Kuybyshev Street) It was named after V.Kuybyshev.

Glimpses of the street

The northern part of the street, you will not miss, is the square in front of the former bus station at the corner of Mitskevitch Street

(left) a prewar picture of the Russian school by the Orthodox church in Brest.

(right) the view of the building today.

Here at the corner of Pushkin Street you see the market that occupies the stretch between Pushkin Street and Mitskevitch Street.

At the corner of Mayakovsky Street. The Polish consulate is seen on the right

The Municipal stomatological clinic at the corner of Gogol Street and Kuibyshev Street.

A former fruit processing plant

In this old house near the former Great synagogue, the future Nobel prize-winner Menachem Begin used to attend school lessons. He was born in Brest in 1913

M. Begin was remembered by the memorial plaque on the wall of the former school in Brest in 2005.

There is another old house close to the former school.

In 2013, a monument to M. Begin was unveiled near the former school he used to attend.

Holocaust Memorial at the corner of Kuybyshev and Dzerzhynsky Street in Brest. It is dedicated to the victims of the Brest Ghetto, which was created by the Germans in October 1941 and where around 19,000 residents were confined. On 15 - 18 October 1942, the last inmates of the ghetto were transported to Bronna Gora, where they were mercilessly killed by the Nazis.

The old wooden barrack-like house on the western side of the street close to Masherov Avenue was on the territory of the ghetto during Nazi occupation. It must have witnessed the tragedy of the ghetto. Yet this house like others on the western side of the street close to Masherov Avenue were pulled down in 2018 for a development site. In 2019, during excavations, a mass grave of ghetto victims was discovered. By March 2019, over 1,214 bodies were unearthed from the mass grave, which was 40 meters long and 2 meters deep. On 22 May, the remains were finally reburied in a common grave in the Northern Cemetery of Brest.