Officers’ hostel – after the filming, the modern building was included in the list of State protected objects. The Brest Regional Ethnographic Museum (arch. Julijan Lisiecki, “ethnic” style). Former building of casino, library, and canteen. Brest prison (currently, clothing manufacturing factory Dinamo, a project of French architects).
Interwar period – Polish. The construction of Tsar’s Brest Fortress, (not in the case of the fortresses in Kaunas), destroyed the old town of Brest. About the joint “enemies” Soviet and Nazi Military Parade in 1939; the Nazis occupied Brest and ceded it to the Soviet Union. About the interest of Brest’s youth in interwar Polish architecture and their initiative group “Brest Constructivism”. After a walk in the former Brest prison, we will come by the ethnographic museum of the city. There you will hear stories about the prison atrocities and the lives of Polish officers. According to the employee of the Brest Regional Ethnographic Museum, “when the government changed in 1939, people who lived there were embraced by darkness”.
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