Hero City Brest

Educational Institution SPb GBPOU "Petrovsky College".
ST. PETERSBURG, 2020

the Soviet Union, it was Brest that fell the first

to face the aggression of the Nazi invaders. In the early morning of June 22, 1941, the Brest Fortress was attacked by enemy forces, in which at that time there were approximately 7 thousand Soviet soldiers and members of the families of their commanders.

the fortress within a few hours, but the 45th Wehrmacht

division was stuck in Brest for a week and, with significant losses, suppressed individual centers of resistance of the heroes of the defenders of Brest for another month. As a result, the Brest Fortress became a symbol of courage, heroic stamina and valor from the time of World War II.

allow the heroic defenders of the fortress to provide coordinated

resistance, so it was divided into several foci. The strongest rebuff to the enemy was given by the heroes of the Kobrin and Volyn fortifications, where soldiers fought with the Germans even in bayonet attacks. According to eyewitnesses of those days, single shooting from the Brest fortress was heard until the beginning of August, but, in the end, the resistance was suppressed and about 5-6 thousand Soviet soldiers were captured.

part of the Reich of the Commissariat of Ukraine. The

fascists destroyed 40,000 civilians in the city and completely destroyed its economy. The city of Brest, including the famous fortress, met its heroes - liberators on July 28, 1944, when the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front entered the city.

"Bayonet" of the Brest Fortress, installed in the center of the citadel.

the title "Hero Fortress". In 1971, the fortress - the

hero "Brest" became a memorial complex. The main entrance to the Brest Fortress is visible from afar - this is a massive composition of reinforced concrete in the form of a huge banner with a star carved in concrete.

The main entrance to the memorial complex "Brest Fortress"

receive the main blow from the Germans from the south-west.

The gate building, which resembled the architecture of the Kholm Gate, had a tower in which families of border guards lived - wives, children, and there was a water supply from the bank of the river.

Terespol Gate

Terespol gate
In 2011, a monument was erected across the

border guards and their families across from the Terespol Gate. Sculpted in bronze and made of granite conveys the tragic atmosphere of those days.

Terespol gate
Border guards marching into an open attack,

behind a stylized wall of fortifications, a mother with a child and a woman giving a little water to a wounded soldier, is symbolic of a helmet. They all froze in a single impulse not to miss the enemy, not to give him the opportunity to cross the lines marked by the border post with the emblem of the USSR.

the citadel.
The center of the Brest Fortress is

marked by a majestic, 100-meter obelisk, soaring high in the skies. The monument is dedicated to the defenders of the fortress, a stele in the form of a bayonet. Below under the obelisk is a mass grave to the defenders of the fortress. A symbol of heroic events - the Bayonet obelisk sparkles in the sun with titanium faces - this composition, unique in scale and work, was established in 1971.