Brest Fortress

1. Orsha College of the "Masherov State University"

Orsha College of the "Masherov State University"
Prepared by Stasyukevich P.A.

2. Building

The construction
of the fortress
began in 1833
according to the
design of the
military
topographer and
engineer KI
Opperman

3. Building

First, temporary
earthworks were erected,
the first stone in the
foundation of the fortress
was laid on June 1, 1836.
On April 26, 1842, the
fortress was ready. The
fortress consisted of a
citadel and three
fortifications defending it
with a total area of 4 square
meters. Km and the length
of the main fortress line is
6.4 km.

4. Building

In the years 1864-1888.
The fortress was
modernized according to
the project of E. I.
Totleben. It was
surrounded by a ring of
forts 32 km in
circumference. On the
territory of the fortress
the St. Nicholas Church
was built.

5.

Storming the fortress.
June 22, 1941 at 4:15
(Moscow time) through
the fortress was opened
a hurricane artillery
fire, caught the garrison
by surprise. As a result,
warehouses were
destroyed, the water
supply was damaged,
communication was cut
off, and large losses
were caused to the
garrison. At 4:23 the
assault was launched.

6. Storming the fortress.

The surprise of the
attack led to the fact
that the garrison could
not render a single
coordinated resistance
and was divided into
several separate
centers. However, the
parts of the garrison in
the rear of the Germans
turned into a
counterattack,
dismembering and
partially destroying the
attackers.

7. Storming the fortress.

Strong resistance was
met by the Germans at
Volyn and, especially, at
the Kobrin fortification,
where it came to
bayonet attacks. A small
part of the garrison
with a piece of
equipment was able to
leave the fortress and
connect with its units;
By 9 o'clock in the
morning the fortress
with 6-8 thousand
people remaining in it
was surrounded.

8. Defense.

On the night of June 23,
when troops were
withdrawn to the outer
ramparts of the fortress,
the Germans began
shelling, offering the
garrison to surrender in
breaks. Surrendered
about 1900 people.

9. Defense.

On June 23, the
remaining defenders of
the fortress succeeded
in knocking out
Germans from the area
of the ring barracks
adjacent to the Brest
Gate, to unite the two
most powerful
remaining resistance
centers on the Citadel:
combat group 455 sp,
led by Lieutenant
Vinogradov and captain
Zubachov; "Officers'
houses"

10. Defense.

Defenders of the Citadel
tried to coordinate their
actions: the draft
"Order No. 1" dated
June 24 was drafted,
suggesting the creation
of a combined combat
group and headquarters
headed by Captain
Zubachov and his
deputy Regimental
Commissar Fomin, to
calculate the remaining
personnel. However,
the next day the
Germans broke into the
Citadel with a sudden
attack.

11. Defense.

A large group of
defenders of the
Citadel, led by
Lieutenant Vinogradov,
tried to break out of the
Fortress through the
Kobrin fortification. But
it ended in failure:
although the
breakthrough group,
divided into several
detachments, managed
to break through the
main shaft, its soldiers
were captured or
destroyed.

12. Defense.

By the evening of June
24, the Germans had
seized most of the
fortress, except for the
Officers' House near the
Citadel's Brest Gate,
casemates in the
earthen rampart on the
opposite bank of
Mukhovets located on
the Kobrin fortification.

13. Defense.

On this day the
Germans managed to
capture 1250 defenders
of the Fortress. The last
450 defenders of the
Citadel were captured
on June 26 after the
explosion of several
compartments of the
ringed barracks of the
"House of Officers", and
on June 29, after the
Germans dropped an
air bomb weighing
1,800 kg, the Eastern
Fort fell.

14. Defense.

However, the Germans
finally managed to clean it
up only on June 30. On June
27, the Germans began using
artillery firing concrete
shells weighing more than 2
tons and weighing 1250 kg of
explosives. After the rupture
of the projectile, funnels
with a diameter of 30 meters
were formed and horrific
injuries were inflicted to the
defenders, including a
rupture of the lungs of those
who hid in the basement of
the fortress from shock
waves.

15. Defense.

One of the inscriptions
in the fortress reads:
"I'm dying, but
I'm not
giving up!
Goodbye,
Motherland "

16. Fortress of War

IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE LAST AREAS OF
RESISTANCE IN THE FORTRESS WERE
DESTROYED ONLY IN LATE AUGUST, WHEN
HITLER AND MUSSOLINI VISITED THE FORTRESS
WITH ENHANCED PROTECTION TO PROTECT
THEM FROM POSSIBLE REMAINING FIGHTERS OF
THE BREST FORTRESS. IT IS ALSO KNOWN THAT
THE STONE THAT HITLER TOOK FROM THE RUINS
OF THE FORTRESS BRIDGE WAS DISCOVERED IN
HIS OFFICE AFTER THE END OF THE WAR.

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