Kilometer Zero Brest - a place where the road begins mileage Brest region.

After the third partition of Poland Russia got former Polish towns and villages connected by broken unkempt roads. Poland only on paper belonged to the Russian Empire, in fact, it remained troubled, unconquered and unsettled country, where the infrastructure was in a state of neglect. To rule and subdue, needed serviceable roads and regular passenger with all newly acquired provinces.

It was necessary not only to fix the roads, but also to streamline the transport network. To do this, the road became a mile from the center of the province numbered. Many cities have been set to zero milestones. It was set pole and zero mile in Brest.

In the early 1990s, the young Republic of Belarus, following the example of the Empress Catherine II, streamlined its network of roads, conducted repair and reconstruction of its transport system, and therefore have been re-established bars kilometer zero in the largest cities of Belarus.

Brest zero kilometer is located opposite the Holy Cross Church on Lenin Square. It is a typical tsarist Russia a mile column, which shows the emblem of the city, and on the basis of his written distances to cities in Belarus.

In milestone is always a lot of tourists who like to be photographed against the backdrop of the attractions of Brest and seek distance of the city written on the basis of the post.