17th September Street
The previous
names:
-
Russian period
- Topol(y)ovaya Street
(Poplar Street)
alas, no poplars are
growing in the street today
- Polish period
- ulica Topolowa,
ulica Pereca (Perec street)
- Soviet period
-
17th September
Street
The street is 0.7 km.
(.44
miles) long, runs
from
Svobody Square to
Internatsionalnaya Street
Old houses in the
street
Click the pics to enlarge them
The 100 year-old house at the corner of
the northern side of
Masherov Avenue.
Masherov Avenue
is on the right
The
eastern side
of the street,
the office of the local paper "Brestsky Kuryer"
(Brest Courier)
The western side
of the street.
A trolleybus
stop. Now it is closer to
Masherov Ave
Trolleybuses
get electricity from a pair of copper wires above.
the
north-western corner of Dzerzhinsky Street and 17th September
Street
The
corner in 1915 with kaiser officers and today.
One extra
floor was built
The eastern side
further on
The view of the eastern side.
The white house
was earlier 12 Perec Street. Today it is No 10
The old balcony has authentic railings
The entrance to
the house
In this old part
of the city visitors enter the 2 storied houses and yards,
passing through
such gates, as there are no passages between the houses.
a little house at the corner saw WW2
Glimpses of
the street in winter.
The snow is
thawing
February 2005
the
south-eastern corner of Dzerzhinsky Street and 17th September
Street.
The
house at the corner was about to collapse and was pulled down in
2007
The
same corner in October 2008.
The house (seen
below), that was adjacent to the corner house, survived.
The grey mark
of he former roof is seen on the rough brickwork of the house.
Another house
is being built at the corner.
 .
In summer 2007
the house at the corner is still seen without roof to the left
by the house that survived and was renovated. Once it was a
synagogue.
The house
in September 2008. The corner house, that was to the left of it,
is now missing
The western side
further on
October 2008
Most buildings were painted recently
and look bright.
Only in December
I managed to take pictures of the low-rise houses. In summer they swamp in the foliage of trees
Here we finish our short stroll
along the street.
Svobody Square is seen ahead
pictures were taken by me in December 2004
and October 2008
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"Old and New Brest"
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