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Brest Railway Museum

The Brest Railway Museum or Brest Museum of Rail Equipment is the first and only outdoor railway museum in , located in Brest. The museum was opened on 5 May 2002.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Belarus
  • Also known as: “Brest Museum of Rail Equipment”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mukhavets and Berestye Archeological Museum.

River
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The is a river in western . A tributary of the , the rises in , Belarus, where the Mukha river and the Vyets canal converge, flows through south-western Belarus and merges with the Bug River in .

Museum
Photo: Чаховіч Уладзіслаў, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , located in the city of , is a museum centered around an archaeological site displaying an authentic East Slavic wooden town dating back to the 13th century. is situated 1½ km southwest of Brest Railway Museum.

Sports venue
Photo: Piotr Kozlowski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known simply as OSK Brestsky or ASK Brestski is a multi-use in , . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Dinamo Brest. is situated 1 km northeast of Brest Railway Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brest Fortress and Brest.

Suburb
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, formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in , . In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the first week of Operation Barbarossa, when Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.

Photo: Martin Cígler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a border town in the south-west corner of , near Terespol in . is a city closely linked to the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the ever-changing borders.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Brest Railway Museum

Latitude
52.08652° or 52° 5′ 12″ north
Longitude
23.67187° or 23° 40′ 19″ east
Elevation
133 metres (436 feet)
Open location code
9G453MPC+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1308381922
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
8030448
Wiki­data ID
Q2509602
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Brest Railway Museum” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բրեստի երկաթուղային թանգարան”
  • Belarusian: “Берасьцейскі чыгуначны музэй”
  • Belarusian: “Брэсцкі музей чыгуначнай тэхнікі”
  • Belarusian: “Брэсцкі чыгуначны музей”
  • Belarusian: “Музей Чыгуначнай Тэхнікі Беларускай Чыгункі”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆزەخانەی ھێڵی ئاسنی برێست”
  • German: “Eisenbahnmuseum Brest”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Brześciu”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Techniki Kolejowej w Brześciu”
  • Russian: “Брестский железнодорожный музей”
  • Russian: “Брестский музей железнодорожной техники”
  • Russian: “Музей Железнодорожной Техники Белорусской Железной Дороги”
  • Russian: “Музей железнодорожной техники города Брест”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей Залізничної Техніки Білоруської Залізниці”

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