Brest, Belarus

Streets and Squares

 

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

 

    Polish period
ulica Zygmuntowska (Zygmunt Street )

 

    Soviet period

Karl Marx Street

 

In the Russian period it was the street where Russian nobility preferred to reside


The main attractions in the street

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This 19th century mansion houses
 
the Regional Lore museum today.

Once it was the flamboyant Hotel "Bristol"

 

Glimpses of the street

 
The houses on the eastern side

 

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

Inside the restaurant as if aboard a ship!

The houses on the eastern side near the museum

 

trolley-bus stop by a red brick house

 

 

        

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

the houses on the western side

 
an old mansion with columns
 
 
 
a shop at the corner in the old house
 
 
Trolleybuses run along the street
 
 
 
 
 
 
The former kirche ( Lutheran church) of the small prewar protestant community
 
   
 
The red brick house saw 2 world wars
 
 
       
 
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