Lenin Square

Lenin Square officially appeared on the map of Brest after the end of the Great Patriotic War, but in fact it was formed much earlier and bore a different name.

It was formed by several buildings, in the address of which there was a street on September 17, the future Lenin Street. These are the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Treasury Chamber (now the State Institution of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus in the Brest region), as well as the ambulance hospital and the Polesie Voivodeship. On the steps of the latter on September 22, 1930, the Soviet and German commands represented by S. Krivoshey and H. Guderian hosted the infamous joint parade of the armies of the two countries.

The complex history of the city of Brest is reflected in the names of its streets and in the frequent change of some of them. From 1939 to 1941, the square was also called the street on which it was named – September 17.

During the war, Brest fell under occupation, and the new government hastened to change the addresses on the envelopes. From 1941 to 1944, the square was called Adolf Hitler Place, then, when the fascists were expelled from the city, the square returned its pre-war name. Since 1948, both the street and the square began to bear the name of Lenin.

The composition of the square required some kind of completeness, some accent. In 1958 a monument to Lenin was erected here. The authorship belongs to the sculptor M. Lastochkin and the architect G. Zaborsky. The monument still stands in its place – the figure of the leader on the six-meter pedestal, summoned to throw his hand forward, pointing to the communist far.