Near the main railway station stands a retired Soviet-era locomotive mounted on a concrete plinth, commemorating the railway workers whose labour built both the rail network and the city itself. Baranovichi came into existence in 1871 as a junction point on the Brest–Moscow line, and the surrounding workshops and depots shaped everything that followed — the layout of the city, the workforce, the economy.
The memorial is worth a brief stop if you are arriving or departing by train. The station building itself is a handsome Soviet-era structure, and the area around it retains the functional, purposeful character of a working rail city. In the early mornings the platform fills with long-distance passengers heading east to Minsk or west toward Brest and the Polish border.