Streets and Squares

Brest, Belarus

Karl Marx Street

The street is 1.5 km long, running north to south, from Ordzhonikidze street to Internatsionalnaya street

The 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 Street

The main attractions in the street

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

This 19th century mansion houses the Regional Lore museum today. It was the flamboyant Hotel "Bristol".

Glimpses of the street

The houses on the eastern side.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Jules Verne Restaurant. The building was rebuilt in the 1990s.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Inside the restaurant, as if aboard a ship!

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

The houses on the eastern side near the museum.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Trolley-bus stop by a red brick house.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Russian Orthodox Cathedral dating from 1865 is at the corner of K.Marx Street and Masherov Avenue

The houses on the western side.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

An old mansion with columns.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

A shop at the corner in the old house.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Blooming tree

Trolleybuses run along the street.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

The former kirche ( Lutheran church) of the small prewar protestant community.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

Brest, Karl Marx Str.

The red brick house saw 2 world wars.

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