Karl Marx Street
The street is 1.5 km long, running north to south, from Ordzhonikidze street to Internatsionalnaya streetThe previous names:
Russian period
Medovaya, Slavyanskaya Street.In the Russian period it was the street where Russian nobility preferred to reside.
Polish period
ulica Zygmuntowska (Zygmunt Street)Soviet period
Karl Marx StreetThe main attractions in the street
This 19th century mansion houses the Regional Lore museum today at the corner of K.Marx Street and Budyonny Street. It was the flamboyant Hotel "Bristol" in the late 19th century.
The Russian Orthodox Cathedral dating from 1865 is at the corner of K.Marx Street and Masherov Avenue
Glimpses of the street
The houses on the eastern side of the street.
Jules Verne Restaurant. The building was rebuilt in the 1990s.
Inside the restaurant, as if aboard a ship!
The houses on the eastern side near the museum.
Trolley-bus stop by the brick house that once was a school.
The houses on the western side of the street.
An old mansion with columns.
A shop at the corner in the old house.
Trolleybuses run along the street.
The former kirche ( Lutheran church) of the small prewar protestant community in Brest.
This red brick house saw 2 world wars.