in his office, the war was met by the regimental commissar of the 84th infantry regiment, fomin.ived for service in brest in april '41. on the eve of the war received a short leave to bring his family, who remained at his previous duty station in latvia. but there were no train tickets. i postponed my vacation for a day. it was precisely the military incident of the 84th regiment that began, let’s say, if i may say so, the first to launch that first counterattack at dawn on july 22. here the defense of the former fortress began. the result of the counterattack was that the enemy assault group that broke through to the central island of the fortress was defeated; the enemy did not count on such resistance. the wehrmacht, which, having traveled all over europe, never retreated, was forced to do so in brest. the first order to retreat since the beginning of world war ii was received by german troops in the area of ​​the brest fortress. ruins engineer. on june 22, 1941 , there was a weapons workshop, a gym and the headquarters of the 75th separate reconnaissance battalion here, most

today it is a garrison temple, on the eve of the war, from april 1941, it was the club of the 84th infantry regimentghest place of the citadel, a strategic object, from the height of which the entire central island is visible. the religious building became one of the main centers of resistance. on june 22, forty- first lieutenant. dzhevatov was the boss ninth border guard of the seventeenth red banner border detachment. the outpost was located on the central island of the fortress. families of border guards also lived here. in the first hours of the war, the outpost building was heavily destroyed. many military personnel and their families died. there is a recollection of one of the border guards, in which he writes that when there was a lull, the groans of wounded soldiers, the screams of children and the barking of dogs of the ninth outpost were heard. it was dark in the fortress, it was covered with heavy thick smoke, and this was the first half hour of the war. almost from the border guard building there was nothing left, so the border guards , led by their commander, moved to the basements of t