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Gogol Street
The street is about 2 km long.
Running from the Brest Fortress west to east, it crosses Lenin
Street, K.Marx Street,
Komsomolskaya Street,
Sovietskaya Street,
Kuybyshev Street,
Karbyshev Street, Kosmonavtov Bulevard.
The previous
names:
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Russian period
- Sredniaya ulitsa (Middle
Street),
since 1909 Gogola ulitsa (Gogol
Street)
Nikolai Vasilievich
Gogol, 1809-52, a Russian
novelist and playwright.
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Polish period
- ulica Kosciuszki (Kosciuszko
Street)
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Soviet period
-
ulitsa Gogola (Gogol
Street)
The main attractions 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 some rare species of trees in front of it: Colorado spruce, thuya,
box bushes.
Brest Music College is another culture venue. It has a good concert hall. The building is between
the stadium and 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.
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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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