Gagarin Boulevard

Bryansk, Gagarin

 Attractions in Bryansk Gagarin Boulevard is the only pedestrian street in Bryansk. Almost on all site the boulevard is closed for movement of motor transport, excepting makes small dead-end site. The boulevard is located in the historical part of the city.

Kurgan of Immortality

Bryansk, ul. Дука, д. 80а

 Sightseeings of Bryansk The Mound of Immortality is the main monument to all the dead Bryansk citizens during the Great Patriotic War. The mound is crowned by a huge five-pointed star. One of the symbols of the city is in the park of culture and recreation "Nightingales", open to the millennium Bryansk.

Monument to the 1000 anniversary of Bryansk

Bryansk, ul. Pokrovskaya Gora

 Sights of Bryansk The monument to the 1000th anniversary of Bryansk represents a sculptural group "Peresvet and Bayan" and a stela depicting Motherland. It was built in 1985, the author of the work is the sculptor Yu. G. Orekhov. The jubilee monument is on the Pokrovskaya Hill - this is the highest point in Bryansk. The figures are clearly visible from the Desna embankment.

AK Tolstoy Park Museum

Bryansk, A. K. Tolstoy

 Sights of Bryansk The playwright Alexei Tolstoy was born in Bryansk, he spent his last years at home. Therefore, on the anniversary of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the writer, the inhabitants of Bryansk decided to name the park in honor of the famous countryman.

Spaso-Grobovskaya church

Bryansk, Lenin Ave. etc. 98

 Sights of Bryansk A modern building in the New Russian style of the Spaso-Grobovsky church was built in 1904, although the first mentions of the temple are still found in ancient annals. The first wooden church in this place was erected in the 13th century

At once pronouncing the name of the city "Bryansk" some fantastic associations appear at once. Local toponyms seem to have come down from the book with the epic. One of the oldest cities of Russia is located immediately on both banks of the Desna river at the confluence of the Bolva and Sněžeti rivers

The historic center of the city is the Pokrovskaya Mountain with the ancient Kremlin. The two oldest streets of Pokrovskaya Gora and February are going down from the Kremlin and grow into the administrative and cultural center of Bryansk.

Bryansk is a city that glorifies courage and military glory. This is the sculpture of the heroes of the Kulikovo battle - Alexander Peresvet and Bayan, and monuments to defenders of fascism, for example, the Kurgan of Immortality.

During the Great Patriotic War, numerous partisan detachments operated in the forests of the Bryansk region. On the route Moscow-Kiev near Bryansk there is a commemorative sign "City of Partisan Glory". Not far from Bryansk is the Memorial Complex "Partisan Glade" - a traditional meeting place for underground veterans in the May holidays.

In addition to traditional for any hero-city of the Eternal Flame and a monument to a Soviet soldier, Bryansk artists honored almost all types of troops with a separate structure. There is a monument to artillerymen, tankmen, warrior drivers and even tank repairers in the city.

In this city, interesting monuments are very popular. For example, nowhere else can we find a monument to the first electric plow or lathe

The love of the Bryans for the singing of professions has resulted in the monuments of doctors, teachers, military journalists, steel truncheon workers, police officers.

On the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in the city have established a monument in the form of a globe with a crack. From the inside, the split glows with an acid-orange light, symbolizing radiation. The Bryansk region is the most affected region of Russia by the technogenic catastrophe.

Architectural features

Today's Bryansk can successfully combine modernity and historical buildings. Fans of ancient architecture will find something to "catch on": in the city and the region in a good condition, many churches and temples have been preserved. The most famous of them are the Spaso-Grobovskaya church, the Ascension church on Berezhke, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the park museum named after AK Tolstoy

The most popular place in the city is Gagarin Boulevard, closed for traffic. The local Arbat is divided into two parts - sloping and steep, decorated in the form of a staircase.

Bryansk is a harsh city, it respects military valor and keeps the memory of its ancestors. But easy entertainment is easy to find: theaters and museums, restaurants and nightclubs are waiting for their visitors. It's just that they are not immediately visible for the seriousness of the monuments and the cleanliness of the lines of old temples that Bryansk meets.