the commander of the twenty-eighth army, lieutenant general luchinsky, recalled that even the forest tunnels were mined, they took the defense of the city so seriously. moskovskaya street is the entrance to brest from minsk. it was here in the summer of forty-four that the first line of german defense was located, the second a few kilometers from her. the first is on the outskirts of the city. today it is the center of modern brest. in the city itself there were bloody battles, every house became a shelter for the nazis. the population was forced to leave for the forests or nearby villages. the streets turned into ashes, ruins instead of houses, corpses of wehrmacht soldiers, destroyed german tanks and mortars everywhere. when the red army entered... the city, there were 14,960 inhabitants in the city, although before the war the figure had already reached 80 thousand. in fact, 6,700 houses, 45% of the housing stock, were completely destroyed. see the real picture of july forty-four can be seen in newsreel footage and miraculously preserved sketches of the liberators. for the first t