Brest Oblast is located in the South-West of the Republic of Belarus. In the West it borders on Poland and in the South, on Ukraine. It occupies 15.7% of the Republic’s territory and 14.7% of the population resides there. The city of Brest (300 thousand people) is central to the region. The Oblast comprises 16 districts, 225 rural councils, 20 towns (including 5 towns of Oblast jurisdiction), 9 urbanized settlements.

Major industrial branches are food, light, and machine engineering. Their percentage is almost two-thirds of total industrial output. Electric energy production, timber and woodworking, pulp-and-paper, flour-milling and mixed feed industries are also well-developed.

Agricultural farms specialize in meat and milk production, potatoes growing, cultivation of grain, sugar beet and vegetables.

Mineral resources available in the Oblast serve as basis for the industrial production using the local natural resources. They include building stone, fusible and refractory clay, glass-making, moulding and mortar sands, peat, sapropel, gravel, fields of pyroschist and brown coal.

The Berlin-Warsaw-Brest-Minsk-Moscow transit corridor, a developed network of railways and motorways pass across the Oblast, there is a straight thoroughfare to Vilnius and Kyiv, which creates favorable conditions for passenger and freight carriage from European countries to Russia, Ukraine and other countries. Also, in the Oblast (in Brest) there functions a first-grade all-weather airport which is capable of receiving and servicing heavy Boeing-747 type aircraft. International oil and gas pipelines also cross the territory of the Oblast.

Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park rich in flora and fauna is located in the Oblast’s territory. To protect and revive plant and animal species are central to researches carried out in the Park to preserve the unique nature typical of Belarus and Europe, as well as maintain evolution processes.

For more information please visit the website of Brest Oblast Executive Committee