Brest, Belarus

Streets and Squares

Gogol Street


The street is about 2 km long. Running from the west to the east, it crosses Lenin Street, K.Marx Street, Komsomolskaya Street, Sovietskaya Street, Kuybyshev Street, Karbyshev Street, Kosmonavtov Bulevard.

The previous names:

Russian period
Sredniaya ulitsa (Middle Street),

since 1909 Gogola ulitsa (Gogol Street)

 

    Polish period
ulica Kosciuszki (Kosciuszko Street)

 

    Soviet period

Gogola ulitsa (Gogol Street)


The main attraction in the street

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The biggest outdoors stadium in Brest can hold 10000 spectators
 

Gogol bust at the intersection of this street and Lenin Street

 
Glimpses of the street
 
The houses on the southern side
 
 
 
The City House of Culture is a big culture venue.
There are rare trees in front of it: Colorado spruce, thuya, bushes of boxtree .
 
 
Brest Music College is another culture venue. It has a good concert hall. The s building is by the City House of Culture
 
 
 
School #9 is opposite the City House of Culture at the corner of Naganov Street.
Colorado spruces greet the schoolchildren coming to the school.
The houses on the southern side between Lenin Street and K.Marx Street

 

 

 after the reconstruction in summer 2007

The trees in the middle of Gogol Street resemble a boulevard,  they make the broad street look attractive for Bresters. It will be another  shopping street soon.

 
 
 
 
 

The northern side between Komsomolskaya St. and Sovietskaya St.

 

The construction of a huge block of flats required more space and a tiny house (right) with an arch was pulled down in October 2008

The construction of the block of flats is in full swing.

The black mark on the corner of the old house on the left reminds of the arch

 

 

Brest Millennium Monument was opened on July 25, 2009 at the intersection with Sovietskaya Street

 

    
 

the building of the stomatological clinics at the corner of Kuybyshev and Gogol Street

 

       
 
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