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New museum in Brest Fortress to open on 23 June

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BREST, 19 June (BelTA) – The new museum exposition dedicated to the defense of the Eastern Fort in the Brest Fortress is almost ready to open, Director of the Brest Hero Fortress Memorial Complex Grigory Bysyuk told BelTA.

Reconstruction of some structures funded from the Belarus-Russia Union State budget is underway in the Brest Fortress. For example, practically all ruins in the territory of the fortress were conserved in 2019. This year the work is centered on the Eastern Fort that has been repaired and conserved. A museum exposition was set up in the fort. “The new exposition will open on 23 June. We believe that this is a very interesting facility and hope that our visitors will like it, too,” Grigory Bysyuk said.

The museum tells about the defense of the Eastern Fort in 1941. Seven halls of the museum will feature exclusive items illustrating stories of defenders of the fort. One of them is, for example, the only standard of the defenders found in the Brest Fortress in 1956.

The exposition features an installation symbolizing the Eastern Fort captured defenders’ last steps on their native land. Tablets with the names of the defenders who died in the Nazi concentration camps hang on the wall nearby. The metallic sculptural composition will be illuminated after dark.

“We want to show the destinies of people who selflessly defended their Motherland,” Grigory Bysyuk noted. For example, the exhibition features their portraits made in 1939-1940 side by side with the ones taken many years after the Great Patriotic War.

The  restoration of the Fifth Fort of the Brest Fortress will begin in the second half of 2020. “This is a unique site that attracts a lot of visitors. Last year, the Fifth Fort welcomed more than 22,000 people. After the repairs and conservation are complete, we will open a museum there,” Grigory Bysyuk added.

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