Fortified area №62

Brest fortified (SD) was number 62 and consisted of a number of defensive units (EO), stretched along the Western Bug River at 120 kilometers. Construction of numerous bunkers conducted in full view of the Germans, a few hundred meters from the border. By June 22, 1941 readiness fortified only 30%, but many gun emplacements clashed and lasted up to three days, some items failed to keep for two weeks. Many defenders are still buried under boulders Germans bombed pillboxes. Now in Belarus is 70 pillboxes Brest cheer. They abandoned the silent monuments remind us of the terrible days of the last war.





1. The ninth defense of the Brest fortified site was built on the banks of the Bug River near the confluence of the rivers Pulvy, between the villages of Orla and farmers. We managed to explore the two structures indicated on the chart at numbers 45 and 50.



2. Dot number 45 had three embrasures, one of them exploded. After the war all the loopholes were immured. At a memorial plaque DotA, only in the Brest region of two.



3. Dot is a double-deck gun, machine gun polukaponir into two 76-mm cannon 2 A-17. In orilone arranged casemate equipped machine gun installing NPS-3.



4. Dot fought. Approximately 18 hours before June 23, 1941 defended his 9 people (three of them - the border guards) under the command of the second lieutenant Shankova. The border guards were killed last name of one of them - the neighbor. Also known surname of another of the garrison soldiers - Siskin.



5. Log into the pillbox was closed Skvoznik.



6. Log in dot covered special loophole. Judging by the damage from her defenders were shot in June 1941.



7. Inside survived hatch with ladder brackets, the lower tier.



8. Save the mask installation A-17.



9. It looks like the L-17 was placed in the embrasure.



10. It is mounted in mantle result 76 2-mm cannon. Developed before the war.



11. Now here, of course, no guns in sight. In the wall between combat casemates gaping hole punched by the Germans during the storming of the bunker.



12. The thickness of the walls of a little more than the thickness of floor slabs, so the explosion of a hole on the lower tier.



13. The worst damage suffered machine gun casemate in orilone. Bent door testifies to the strength of the explosion.



14. Concrete walls crumble, but the strength of the vertical beam is only slightly bent.



15. Casemate very small, almost half of the space occupied by machine-gun installation.



16. At the rear of the bunker, there are several support facilities. It housed a diesel generator and a filter-ventilation system, because polukaponir was designed for autonomous combat operations even in the use of chemical weapons.



17. Approximately looked diesel generator bunker.



18. Our company came to the next firing point. Left to Roma, right Eugene, and still with us Pasha was doing amazing spherical panoramas.



19. Dot number 50 is hiding in the bush, in the center of the construction pit.



20. Dot remarkable strong levels of destruction. Presumably, he led the fight from 22 until 24 June 1941, but no exact information. On the wall, converted to the border, there are traces of the results of small shells.



21. Inside the building seen through, so strong it destroyed.



22. Originally, it was a two-tier front bunker fire, designed for two loopholes: one machine gun (installing NPS-3) and one machine-gun and artillery (installation of DOT-4). Strengthening as well as the dot number 45 was autonomous, had its own well.



23. Here now is the front wall of the bunker.



24. The ceiling of concrete pillbox lost half-meter thick, made out fittings.



25. When water is flowing through the cracks in the concrete ceiling formed stalactites.



26. Earlier this place was a loophole installation DOT-4.



27. So in general looked this setting. It was a 45-mm anti-tank gun, coupled with a machine gun.



28. In the battle dungeon fall through the floor on the lower tier.



29. These injuries were caused not during the defense of the defenders of the bunker, but much later. In 1943-1944, the Germans began a critical lack of metal, and they were engaged in undermining the Soviet bunkers, removing loopholes wall armored with cannons and machine guns in them.



30. The overlap between the tiers was almost completely destroyed. At this place was a staple-trap.



31. And in the doorway was a door at the entrance to the bunker.



32. More or less preserved Skvoznik - dorsal part of the structure.



33. Ruined and overgrown with moss emergency exit.



34. Then we moved to the northwest until they reached a field near the village Novosyolky.



35. Around the village is the 8th node fortified defense of Brest.



36. We examined the dot marked on the chart number 71.



37. It is a large firing point of the three-machine gun embrasures with the sector of fire of 180 °.



38. embrasure pillbox is rotated in the direction of the border, and the entrance is from the rear. Before opening in Skvoznik visible emergency exit - well on the lower tier.



39. Emergency exit with staples-ladder is well preserved.



40. Skvoznik pillbox with flue gas.



41. At the entrance directed loophole.



42. So loophole defense entrance looks inside.



43. It was to be equipped with a sealed bronezaslonkoy like this. Fire defenders pillbox had to drive out of hand guns and personal weapons.



45. From the entrance to the combat casemates short corridor leads.



45. Luke and Hook-ramp on the lower tier is not preserved. Perhaps they did not have time to set the beginning of the war.



46. ​​Embrasures were taken out by the Germans during the occupation, along with part protivootkolnogo wall covering.



47. Now all three loopholes pillbox absent.



48. A machine-gun looked so installing NPS-3 standing sometime in the embrasure. On a machine with a ball machine gun was located mantle result "Maxim».



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50. Not far away in the pine forest was seen another dot, this time a small odnokazematny.



51. Inside - just one room. Dot was designed for two machine gun embrasures.



52. Embrasures empty at the beginning of the war they did not have time to install the machine guns. Later embrasures and entrance to the building for some reason bricked.



53. Inside the small room with protivootkolnym coating on the walls and ceiling. Left to see the entrance, on the right - walled second loophole.



54. Near the bunker - a picturesque pond with walkways.



55. On the way back we caught another small dot odnokazematny used by someone as a foundation for the construction of a two-story booth.



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