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Lenin
Street
The
street is stretching 1.7 km south to north, between
Internatsionalnaya Street and
Ordzhonikidze Street , is mostly
lined with administrative
buildings.
The previous
names:
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Russian period
- Bulvarny Prospect
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Polish period
- ulica Unii Lubelskiej
(Union of Lublin Street )
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Soviet period
- Lenin Street
Here Lenin Street meets
Masherov Avenue.
At the corner you see a landmark and the Rescued Artistic
Treasures Museum
The rock commemorates the ever first record of the town
in 1019. In a few years Brest will celebrate its
millennium. In the background is the
Museum of
Rescued Artistic Treasures
The western side.
Museum of
Rescued Artistic Treasures
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The old mansion, dating from
the 1930s, houses a huge collection of objects d'arts that
have been rescued from smuggling abroad since 1988
Music School
above the old pictures
After the facade was
refurbished the picturesque ivy has gone from the front wall.
On the right side is Ikonnikov
Mini-Park.
The mini-park on the
western side of the street was named after
Soviet General Ikonnikov, who is remembered by a monument
(above)
During the liberation of
Brest in 1944 he was deadly wounded
An old building in the
mini-park before the reconstruction
The Drama Theatre is
seen in the background on the western side of the street.
Till 1915, vast vacant space
was
stretching
from Brest Fortress
to the street, that was the
official boundary of Brest in those days.
The boundary was marked by markers made of
stones.
In the foreground is the only boundary
marker that survived, dating from
the 19th century. It is at the north-western corner of Gogol Street and Lenin Street.
The text in Old Russian style reads that it marked the border of the fortress from
1836 till 1915.
Before
WW1,
there were no structures but a redbrick barrack on
the western side ofthe street .
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Drama Theatre
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- The building was reconstructed
in the early 2000s.
Annually, it hosts the international
theater festival Belaya Vezha
(White Tower).
During the festival
Two amusing masks appeared in
2007 near the theatre to remind the people of the theater art.
on the eastern side
- Puppet
Theatre
The puppet theatre is
opposite the drama theatre. The stage is used for performances
of the festival
- N.Gogol Bust
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was put up in 1962, to
commemorate the famous Russian writer of the 19th century
N. Gogol.
It stands at the corner of Gogol Street and Lenin Street.
The picture was taken in August 2007 after the
reconstruction of Gogol Street
The hanging planters at the
corner of Gogol Street and Lenin
Street
The old houses on the eastern
side opposite the theatre
Lenin Street crosses Lenin Square,
the Civic Center of Brest.
It is
vast plaza, bordered by office buildings and a Roman Catholic
church
the view before
the reconstruction of Lenin Square |
The view after the reconstruction of Lenin Square |
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- Brest
Regional Administration
The
building was constructed on the western side of the square in the mid-1930s.
Today it houses the
government of the Brest region.
- National Bank
of Belarus. Brest
Department
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The building was constructed in
mid-1920s. It is in the northwestern corner of Lenin
Square.
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The picture was taken in
2003 before the reconstruction of Lenin Square. The trees
of rare specimen were nice in spring, when they were
swamping in pink blossom. They were rather old. Therefore
they were cut during the reconstruction. Sorry, a better picture
of the blooming trees is not
available
The
newest Brest's fountain appeared in the square in 2007
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The northwestern corner
with the bank |
The western side with the
regional administration |
The southern side with the
Roman catholic church |
The eastern side with an
after-war office building |
Day of the City, July 2008
Orchestras of Brest open
the day.
The flag of Brest flies
high
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- Roman Catholic Church
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The church was constructed
in the 1850s after all the Catholic churches were closed
on the site of the old town in the course of the
construction of Brest Fortress. It was consecrated in 1856 and
devoted to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It
borders Lenin Square.
It was
reconstructed in the 1950s to house a museum.
In the
late 1990s the building was returned to the Catholic community.
The
church
was reconstructed again to restore the original view. It
was consecrated again. As a gift
the church got a nice organ from Germany.
At the southeastern
corner of the square is the official landmark called the zero
milepost of Brest to measure distances from the town.
This milepost looks cool among the
Colorado spruces on a crispy
winter day
Christmas tree in
Lenin Square
the City Park meets you
at the end of the street on its
western side close to the railway bridge and station.
It was laid out in 1906.
The main entrance to the park.
a walk across the park
At the corner of
Ordzhinikidze Street on
the eastern side of Lenin Street is Hotel Bug, that is 50
years old.
It was named after the Bug
River, not creeping bugs.
It will undergo reconstruction
in coming years. Yet nobody is going to change its name.
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