CIRCUS (Sovetskaya St., 27). First building of circus (wooden) has been constructed in Gomel in 1890th by private entrepreneur I. Slobodov on the area of Central Market (former Horse Square) and existed till 1917. In the circus, gave performances companies of K-Mumino (1896), Chinese-Japanese of Dalai Lama (1910) and Japanese Court of Yamasaki-San (1919), circus of A. Devinie (1901), Lar (1910) and A. V. Lapiado (1909, 1912), 'Russian Coliseum' of F. Durov (1909), 'Decadance' (from Dvinsk, 1913). The circus auditorium was also used for theatre performances and concerts. In 1926, on street Komsomolskaya of the city (now Lenin Avenue) a new circus building was opened (for 2 thousand seats), where circus groups from Russian Federation gave performances. In 1932 the circus building was transferred to Byelaryssian Third State Theatre (BST-3), in 1939 Russian Regional Drama Theatre opened in it (in 1941 the building was burned down). In 1950th a circus-chapiteau worked in Gomel. Modern building was constructed in 1972 based on the reused project of A. Kudryavtsev (Moscow), Yu. Motorin, M. Shulmeister, Sh. Khinchin (Gomel). A composition consists of several spaces united by a rectangular in plan floor. In the building silhouette, dominates a dish-shaped amphitheatre roofed by sloping spherical dome. Here the entertainment portion of the building is located (auditorium for 1856 seats* with arena, stage and orchestral area); Soviet and foreign circus groups gave performances. Main volume is situated on rectangular in plan stylobate where ticket office hall, cloakrooms, front stairs, office, dressing rooms and service premises are located. The amphitheatre is surrounded by a paned foyer having exits to terrace arranged on the roof of lower volume. Animal enclosures are situated in the patio and are linked with the arena directly. In the building neighbourhood there are area with decorative pool, flowerbeds, the Pioneer Park.

* After reconstruction of the auditorium in 2006 number of seats makes 1544.