Memorable places in Kobrin: lost forever

In 1940 the monument to V. I. Lenin was placed into Liberty Square (the former Market square). In the first days of the German occupation Hitlerites placed padded Soviet tanks on the square, and destroyed a monument. Gallows on which executed our fellow citizens were placed into the square.

In the city of Kobrin two monuments to V. I. Lenin remained. One of them is in the downtown (at Lenin Square) and is well-known to all citizens and city visitors. The second monument is less known. It is in the territory of the former tool plant (nowadays "SITOMO")...

This unusual monument once stood in our remarkable park – on a hill at the parkovsky lake. In 1954 works on a construction of this hill were conducted (nowadays a rotunda). Upon termination of construction the monument to an elk was established. Then it was transferred to a pond of Kobrin management of main...

Practically in all cities and settlements there were mills. Unfortunately, many of them are forever lost. There were such mills and in the city of Kobrin. One of them was near present shop "Suvorovsky" which is located almost opposite to Raduga movie theater...

On a concrete socle 4 crocodiles whose of oskalenny mouths water streams beat were located. In the center of the fountain, having lifted up a trunk, the elephant threw out water. This original fountain which was decoration of our city worked infrequently and existed not for long...

In the early thirties Tadeush Kosciusko's bust was established in Kobrin on the place of a monument in honor of 100-year anniversary of a victory in War of 1812 which during World War I was broken by the German troops. The sculptor who modeled the general's bust...

For several years the monument to "the leader and the teacher" towered in the heart of Kobrin, on the Market square renamed in 1939 into Liberty Square. We know history of the city since courageous obr and the first princes Kobrin...

Once in our park of A.V. Suvorov there was a monument to the Tennis-player. The sculpture of the tennis-player looked quite impressively. On quite high pedestal there was a sportswoman-tennis-player who, most likely, was going to make the next giving...