Icon "Brest Fortress" [2]

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Icon "Brest Fortress" [2]: [photo] / photographer A. Melentiev. - Electronic data (1 file: 1.1 MB). - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. - (Cities - heroes). -
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On the photo: a souvenir badge "Brest Fortress". The icon is made in the form of a relief symbolic image of the Kholm Gate of the Brest Fortress. In the lower part of the image of the medal "Golden Star" and the inscription: "Brest Fortress." It is included in the series of icons "Hero Cities". White metal. Stamping. Colorless enamel. The size is 20x18 mm. Pin fastening. Without stigma, the price is 15 kopecks. Location: From a private collection. - On the souvenir badge "Brest Fortress" the Kholmskie gates are depicted - one of the four gates of the Ring Barracks leading to the citadel of the Brest Fortress, named after the former name of the city of Helm, as the road from the gate led to this city. Built in classical style in the beginning of the XIX century. The gates on the outer facade were decorated with turrets, which have survived to this day partly, since they were badly damaged at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. June 22, 1941, the garrison of the fortress was one of the first to take the blow of the German fascist invaders. Every day defenders of the fortress had to beat 7-8 attacks, flamethrowers were used. The organized defense of the fortress lasted almost a month. For the fortitude of the defenders of the Brest Fortress and in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, on May 8, 1965 the Brest Fortress was awarded the honorary title "Hero Fortress". Since 1971 it is a memorial complex. The red bricks of the Kholm Gate preserved traces of bullets and shells. Today, this gate is a symbol of the Brest Hero Fortress .
I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg) .1. "Brest Hero Fortress", memorial complex (Brest, city, Belarus) - Badges. 2. The people (the collection). 3. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 4. Territory (collection). 5. Hero cities - USSR - Badges. 6. Souvenir badges - the USSR.
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Source of electronic copy: PB
Place of origin: From private collection
Publisher Президентская библиотека имени Б. Н. Ельцина
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