Brest, Belaroushie

Brest (; ; 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.

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.Encyclopedia Lituanica. Boston, Massachusetts, Vol. I, p.409. LCC74-114275

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 

 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

 References 


Category:Populatit places in Belaroushie
Category:Airchaeological steids in Belaroushie
Category:Populatit places established in the 11t century
Category:Belaroushie–Poland border crossins