Streets and Squares
Brest, Belarus

Lenin Street

The street is stretching 1.7 km south-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


Glimpses of the street

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Here Lenin Street meets Masherov Avenue. Left: the Rescued Art Treasures Museum.

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The rock commemorates the ever first record of the town in 1019. In 2019 Brest celebrated its millennium.

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In the background is the Museum of Rescued Art Treasures.

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At the southwestern corner is a war memorial and the City Garden.

on the western side of the street

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The high-rise of the regional Statistic center at the corner of Masherov Avenue.

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Museum of Rescued Art 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.

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Music School (above) in old pictures

Brest, Lenin Str. Music School

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

May 2006, Brest, Lenin Str.

On the right-hand side is Ikonnikov Mini-Park. Planters are high on the lamp posts.

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

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An old building in the mini-park before the reconstruction.

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The building after the reconstruction.

August 2007, Brest, Lenin Str.

Drama Theater

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

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During a theater festival

September 2007, Brest, Lenin Str.

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

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

Till 1915, the vast vacant space on the right-hand-side was stretching from the street up to the Brest Fortress. That street was the official boundary of Brest in those days. Left at the northwestern corner you see a landmark in the shape of a rock.

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The boundary was marked by markers made of gray rough stones. In the foreground is the only boundary marker that remained. It dates from the 19th century. It is at the north-western corner of Gogol Street and Lenin Street.

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

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

northwards along the eastern side

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Secondary School No. 18

University hostel, Brest

A hostel of the Brest State University.

Brest, Lenin Str. Lode clinics

Lode Clinics in Brest

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Puppet Theater

The puppet theater is opposite the drama theater. It has undergone a dramatic redevelopment. Only the facade wall of the old building remained. A much bigger structure was built next to it. The pictures above were taken before the redevelopment.


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N.Gogol Bust.

The 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.

September 2007, Brest, Lenin Str.

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

August 2007, Brest, Lenin Str.

The old houses on the eastern side opposite the theater.



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

a walk across the park

Bug Hotel, Brest

At the corner of Ordzhinikidze Street on the eastern side of Lenin Street is Hotel Bug, that has nothing to do with creeping bugs. It was named after the Bug River. So far, nobody is going to change its name.

Lenin Square

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 building of the Brest Regional Administration is on the western side of the square. The building was constructed in the mid-1930s.


September 2004, Brest, Lenin Sq.

the view before the reconstruction of Lenin Square. The building of the administration is on the left.



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The view after the reconstruction of Lenin Square.

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During festivities the square is the main venue.

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Bank

The building of the bank was constructed in mid-1920s. It is in the northwestern corner of Lenin Square. The pictures above were taken before the reconstruction of Lenin Square in 2003. The trees of hawthorn were nice in spring, when they were swamping in pink blossom. They were rather old. Therefore, they were cut during the reconstruction.

A fountain appeared in the square in 2007.

September 2007, Brest, Lenin Str. fountain

The northwestern corner with the bank in the background


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The western side with the regional administration

September 2007, Brest, Lenin Sq. fountain

The southern side with the Roman catholic church in the background.

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The eastern side with an after-war office building.

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Day of the City. July 2008

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the march of orchestras gives a start to the festivities.

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The flag of Brest flies high.

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Roman Catholic Church

The church of Holy Cross was constructed in the 1850s on the eastern side of the street after all the churches were closed in the old town in the course of the construction of the Brest Fortress. This church was consecrated in 1856 and devoted to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The church 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. In Belarus, organ music was flourishing in the 16th-17th century. Minsk, Brest, Grodno and Nesvizh were the largest centres of organ music As a gift in 2003, this church got a nice organ from the church in Massing, that is in Bayern.


January 2006, Brest, Lenin Sq.

At the south-eastern corner of the square is the official landmark called the zero milepost of Brest, a benchmark to measure distances from the town. This milepost looked cool among the Colorado spruces on a crispy winter day. Now new trees grow on this place.

January 2006, Brest, Lenin Sq.

Christmas tree in Lenin Square.





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