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That is a town in the
Brest Region (oblast), the capital of the Kobryn
District (Rayon). The town is located in the southwestern part of Belarus
where the Mukhavets River and the Dnieper-Bug Canal
meet, about 52 km east of the city of Brest along highway "Brest- Moscow". It is
a station on the Brest - Gomel railway line. As of 1995, the population was
around 51 thousand.
Historic background
It was first mentioned in the old
Russian chronicles in the late 13th century. That was a favorable place at the
start of portage that finished near Pinsk, as the
tradespeople had to drag overland their boats full of merchandises from
the Mukhavets River to the
Pina River to reach Pinsk, about 90 km east of Kobrin. That was an
important trading route between the Baltic Sea and Black see in those days.
Soon afterwards, in the early 14th century
the town was subdued by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Between 1589 and 1766 it
was a thriving market and a free town of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth open
for all the tradespeople coming from many countries, including Jews.
Kobrin
Today
In 2009 the old town underwent
reconstruction to host the National Harvest Festival (dozhynki).
The pictures below were taken 2005-2008,
before the reconstruction.
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Zamkovaya Square
the name indicates that once it was
in the former upper castle |
Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Church |
1812 War memorial commemorates a Russian victory over
Napoleon's troops by Kobrin |
Orthodox Church by the river |
Lenin Street (former Market Square) |
the Baptist Church of Kobrin viewed across the river.
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the old part of the town (near Oktyabrskaya Str) |
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A. Suvorov museum |
A.Suvorov |
the new building of the Museum |
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Lenin Square |
the former market square (right) and the road leading
up to the bridge (left) |
planters a la Kobrin! |
Svobody Square with the memorial commemorating the 40th
anniversary of the town's liberation in Yuly 1944.
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in the old park of the town in spring
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the lake with the island |
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Views in First of May Street
(former Pinsker Street)
starting from the
former Market Square |
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the former market close to the bridge.
Here the street starts.
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the east side runs parallel to the River |
an old mansion on the west side. |
close to the Kobrinka River, that is not easy to spot today |
the old building of the Great Synagogue of Kobrin. |
on the eastern side |
the Catholic Church on the western side |
the grave yard of the Catholic Church
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Puganov War Memorial on the west side, across the
street is the school built in Polish period and rebuilt in the Soviet
period. Old and new cannels merge quite close from the school.
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Here the old and new cannels merge by Pinsker Str.
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Kobrin after the
reconstruction
3 glimpses of Kobrin after the reconstruction
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here to see more pictures of the town after the reconstruction in 2009
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