Eastern Europe
Belarus
Brest Oblast

Brest Fortress

Brest Fortress, formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in , . In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the first week of Operation Barbarossa, when Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: 19th century Belarusian fortress
  • Also known as: “Brest-Litovsk Fortress”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mukhavets and St. Nicholas Garrison Cathedral.

River
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The is a river in western . A tributary of the , the rises in , Belarus, where the Mukha river and the Vyets canal converge, flows through south-western Belarus and merges with the Bug River in .

Church
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is a church.

Museum
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The , located in the city of , is a museum centered around an archaeological site displaying an authentic East Slavic wooden town dating back to the 13th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brest Fortress Citadel and Rečyca.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Photo: Martin Cígler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a border town in the south-west corner of , near Terespol in . is a city closely linked to the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the ever-changing borders.

Brest Fortress

Latitude
52.08266° or 52° 4′ 58″ north
Longitude
23.65545° or 23° 39′ 20″ east
Open location code
9G453MM4+35
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8796541795
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q23868
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Brest Fortress” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعة برست ليتوفسك”
  • Arabic: “قلعة برست-ليتوفسك”
  • Arabic: “قلعة برست”
  • Arabic: “قلعة بريست ليتوفسك”
  • Arabic: “قلعة بريست-ليتوفسك”
  • Arabic: “قلعة بريست”
  • Armenian: “Բրեստի ամրոց”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brest qalası”
  • Bashkir: “Брест ҡәлғәһе”
  • Belarusian: “Берасьцейская крэпасьць”
  • Belarusian: “Брэсцкая крэпасць”
  • Bulgarian: “Брестка крепост”
  • Catalan: “Fortalesa de Biérastse”
  • Catalan: “Fortalesa de Brest”
  • Chechen: “Брестан гӀап”
  • Chinese: “佈列斯特要塞”
  • Chinese: “布列斯特要塞”
  • Chinese: “布雷斯特要塞”
  • Croatian: “Tvrđava u Brestu”
  • Czech: “Brestská pevnost”
  • Dutch: “Fort van Brest”
  • Finnish: “Brestin linnoitus”
  • French: “Forteresse de Brest-Litovsk”
  • French: “forteresse de Brest”
  • French: “Forteresse de Brest”
  • Georgian: “ბრესტის ციხესიმაგრე”
  • German: “Brester Festung”
  • German: “Festung Brest-Litowsk”
  • Greek: “Φρούριο του Μπρεστ”
  • Hebrew: “מבצר ברסט ליטובסק”
  • Hungarian: “Breszti erőd”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Brest”
  • Indonesian: “Brest Fortress”
  • Italian: “Fortezza di Brest”
  • Italian: “Fortezza di Brėst”
  • Japanese: “ブレスト要塞”
  • Kirghiz: “Брест чеби”
  • Korean: “브레스트 요새”
  • Latvian: “Brestas cietoksnis”
  • Lithuanian: “Bresto tvirtovė”
  • Persian: “قلعه برست”
  • Polish: “Twierdza brzeska”
  • Polish: “Twierdza Brzeska”
  • Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Brest”
  • Romanian: “Fortăreața Brest”
  • Russian: “Брестская крепость”
  • Serbian: “Брестовска тврђава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brestska tvrđava”
  • Slovak: “Brestská pevnosť”
  • Spanish: “Fortaleza de Brest”
  • Tatar: “Брест крепосте”
  • Thai: “ป้อมเบรสต์”
  • Thai: “ป้อมแบรสต์”
  • Turkish: “Brest Kalesi”
  • Udmurt: “Брест крепость”
  • Ukrainian: “Берестейська фортеця”
  • Ukrainian: “Брестська фортеця”
  • Ukrainian: “Брєстська фортеця”
  • Urdu: “قلعہ بریسٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Brest qal’asi”
  • Uzbek: “Brest qalʼasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Pháo đài Brest”

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