formerly known as Brest-Litoŭsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus. In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the fortress to commemorate...

The defense of Brest Fortress was the first battle of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union launched on 22 June 1941. The German...

Fortress of War (Russian: Брестская крепость; translit. Brestskaia krepost; festival title: The Brest Fortress) is a 2010 Russian-Belarusian war film recounting...

as the Union of Brest and Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Furthermore, the Brest Fortress was recognized by the Soviet Union as a Hero Fortress in honour of the...

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political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately executed him...

of Brest, Brest being the name of two important fortress towns in France and Belarus, respectively, and a small town in Croatia. The Battle of Brest (1592)...

Brest Region, also known as Brest Oblast or Brest Voblasts (Belarusian: Брэсцкая вобласць, romanized: Bresckaja voblasć; Russian: Брестская область,...

the leaders of the Defense of Brest Fortress during Operation Barbarossa, head of the 9th frontier post of the 17th Brest border detachment of the People’s...

1898–1944) was a Soviet officer known for the defense of the Citadel of Brest Fortress. Born on February 28, 1898, in the village of Podlesnaya Sloboda, Zaraysky...

January 1979) was a Soviet officer known as the hero of the Defense of Brest Fortress. Pyotr Gavrilov was an ethnic Kryashen and a major in command of the...

war film about a famous episode of the Eastern Front, the Defense of Brest Fortress, it is based on the novel His Name Is Not in the List by Boris Vasilyev...

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary...

War. On the war's 80th anniversary, a commemorative ceremony at the Brest Fortress was held with the participation of the Belarusian military and the Ryazan...

Korfanty) were imprisoned in the Brest Fortress, where their trial took place (thus the popular name for the election: the 'Brest election'). A number of less...

The German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk (German: Deutsch-sowjetische Siegesparade in Brest-Litowsk, Russian: Парад вермахта перед частями РККА...

крепость" (tr. "Brest Fortress") Минск, 2004 (in Russian) ISBN 985-01-0428-7 Суворов А.М. "Брестская крепость на ветрах истории" (tr. "Brest fortress on the winds...

Litewski (now Brest, Belarus). After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles...

November 2018. Accessed on 9 January 2021. "The Eternal Flame". old.brest-fortress.by. "Pazardzhik became a home of peace" (in Bulgarian). PZ. September...

subjected to repressions (most famously, imprisonment in the Brest Fortress, and the subsequent Brest trials). The Centrolew was defeated in the elections and...

fires and sieges, was destroyed in the course of construction of the Brest Fortress in the 19th century. There is only scarce textual data about the site...

electrical power, and the Brest Fortress lost its water supply. From about 5 am on 22 June fierce fighting began around the Brest fortress, but the seven battalions...

Third Army troops moved in and surrounded them. The Brest garrison, Festung Brest, meaning "Fortress Brest", as German propaganda referred to surrounded cities...

ворота, Belarusian: Холмская брама) is a gate of the citadel of Brest Fortress in Brest, Belarus. Originally built in the 19th century during Russian rule...

free Donetsk, where he and other Russian actors presented film "The Brest Fortress". Итоги конкурса ФСБ России за 2013 год Андрей Мерзликин нашёл настоящую...

30 August 2020. "Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War: Brest Fortress and Mamayev Kurgan (Belarus)". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. 30 May...

began Operation Barbarossa by starting the 9-day long siege of the Brest Fortress. In March 1942 the Red Army defeated the division at Livny, Russia and...

to counter the assault with a string of hasty operations, while the Brest Fortress is desperately defended. The Soviets manages to recapture Yelnya but...

misnomer for the Tower of Kamyenyets Babruysk fortress Brest Fortress, also known as Brest-Litovsk fortress Hajciunishki Halshany Castle Hieraniony Castle...