The fortress was built between 18, but by WWII it was being used mainly as a barracks. It occupies a beautiful spot at the confluence of the Bug and Mukhavets rivers, about a 25-minute walk from central vul Savetskaya. Today the fortress is a rambling complex of museums and Soviet memorials dedicated to that siege. During Operation Barbarossa in the early days of the Great Patriotic War (WWII), a small band of soldiers gallantly held off a superior Nazi force at Brest Fortress and became Soviet legends.
