Brest, Belarus

:For a city in France, see Brest, France.

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France - Brest, France

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Brest (Belarusian: ?????????, ????? | Biera?cie, Brest; also known as Brest-Litovsk and in Polish as Brze?? Litewski, Brze?? nad Bugiem or Brze?? Bia?oruski; Russian: ?????, Lithuanian: Lietuvos Brasta (literally meaning "shallows of Lithuania") is a city (population 290,000 in 2004) in Belarus close to the Polish border where the Western Bug and Mukhavets Rivers meet. It is the capital city of the Brest voblast and is located at {{coor dm|52|08|N|23|40|E|}}.

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Belarusian - Polish - Russian - Lithuanian - 2004 - Belarus - Polish - Bug - Mukhavets River - Brest voblast

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It was a main railroad transfer point during Soviet times and it remains a rail transfer point and customs/immigration checkpoint on the Berlin/Moscow rail line. Some of the land in the rail yards is contaminated due to transhipping of radioactive materials during the Soviet regime. In Brest the rail cars had to be transferred between the Russian broad gauge and the European standard gauge.

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Soviet - Transhipping - Radioactive - Broad gauge - Standard gauge

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