Brest, Belaroushie

Brest (Belaroushie: Брэст; Roushie: Брест; see an aa alternative names), an aa Brest-on-the-Bug ("Brześć nad Bugiem" in Pols) an Brest-Litovsk ("Brześć Litewski" in Pols), is a ceety (population 344,470 in 2024) in Belaroushie at the mairch wi Poland opposite the ceety o Terespol, whaur the Wastren Bug an Mukhavets rivers meet. It is the caipital ceety o the Brest Voblast.

Brest Брэст
Banner Coat airms
Brest Location o Brest in Belaroushie
Coordinates: 52°08′N 23°40′E
Kintra	Belaroushie
Region	Brest Region
Destricts	Brest Destrict
First mention (Primar Chronicle)	1019
First mention (Novgorod First Chronicle)	1017
Govrenment
• Chairman o the Brest Ceety Executive Committee	Aleksandr Rogachuk
• Chairman o the Brest Ceety Cooncil o Deputes	Nikolai Krasovsky
Area
• Total	145 km2 (56 sq mi)
Elevation	280.4 m (919.9 ft)
Population  (2024)
• Total	344,470
• Density	2,400/km2 (6,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (FET)
Postal code	224000
Area code(s)	+375 (0)162
License plate	1
Website	Executive committee

Bein situatit on the main railwey line connectin Berlin an Moscow, an an intercontinental hieway (the European route E30), Brest became a principal mairch crossin syne Warld War II in Soviet times. The day it links the European Union an the Commonweel o Independent States.

Acause o the break-o-gauge at Brest, whaur the Roushie braid gauge meets the European staundart gauge, aw passenger trains, comin frae Poland, must hae thair bogies replaced here, for tae traivel on athort Belaroushie, an the fraucht must be translaidit frae caurs o ane gauge tae caurs o anither. Some o the laund in the Brest rail yairds remains contaminatit as a result o the transshipment o radioactive materials here syne Soviet days awtho cleanup operations hae been takin place.

Ceety name

Thare are several theories o the ceety name oreegin. The maist common are as follaes,

• the name o the ceety comes frae the Slavic ruit beresta meanin birch, bark,
• the name o the ceety comes frae the Slavic ruit berest meanin elm,
• the name o the ceety comes frae the Lithuanian wird brasta meanin ford.

Ance a centre o Jewish scholarship, the ceety's name in Yiddish, is בריסק ("Brisk"), hence the term "Brisker" uised tae describe followers o the influential Soloveitchik faimily o rabbis.

Coat of arms

The coat o arms features an arrow pyntit upwards and a bow on a sky blue shield.

Internaitional relations

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Belaroushie

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Brest is twinned wi:

Oryol, Roushie Moscow, Roushie Nizhny Tagil, Roushie Astrakhan, Roushie Kovrov, Roushie Tyumen, Roushie Petrozavodsk, Roushie Saunt Petersburg (Nevski rayon), Roushie

Lutsk, Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine Odessa, Ukraine Lublin, Poland Biała Podlaska, Poland Siedlce, Poland Terespol, Poland

Pleven, Bulgarie Botoşani, Romanie Coevorden, Netherlands Xiaogan, Cheenae Port-sur-Saône, Fraunce Mittleres Schussental (Weingarten, Ravensburg, Baienfurt, Baindt, Berg), Germany Aleppo, Sirie