Restored Savieckaja Street became the landmark of the regional center.

Savieckaja Street is located in the central part of the city. Its length is 1.7 kilometers, and most of it is pedestrian.

In the late XIX – early XX century, the street was divided into two parts: Miĺjonnaja Street and Palicejskaja Street. Wealthy citizens-Jews lived on this street. It is no coincidence that a synagogue built in 1862 was located here. Today this building is a cinema "Belarus".

In 1919, when Brest was under the control of Poles, Palicejskaja and Miĺjonnaja Streets have been renamed in honor of the Polish Army captain Jerzy Dombrowski.

In the interwar period, there were shopping arcade, jewelry workshops, a bank, a pharmacy on the street. The pharmacy was built in 1925 in the Art Nouveau style by the architect Salamon Hrynbierh. The uniqueness of the Hrynbierh pharmacy is that with all authorities it hasn’t changed its purpose.

During the German occupation (1941–1944) Jerzy Dombrowski Street was renamed in Generalstrasse. Since 1944, the street has acquired the name Savieckaja.

At the beginning of the street there is one of the buildings of the Brest State University. Earlier Aliaksiejeŭskaja grammar gymnasium for boys built in 1903 was located in this building. In 2010, close to the building, a greenhouse, in which about three hundred species of exotic plants grows, was built.

In 2009, numerous small architectural forms, decorative elements and sculptures appeared on the street. Among them, there is a sculpture "Old Town", the monument of the millennium of Brest, the sculpture of a bat with a lamp in claws – the symbol of the fact that darkness will never come in Brest.

Every day on the street there is a unique ritual of lighting of street lamps by a true lamplighter.

Publication date: 10.07.2019.

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