Gavrilov's Caponier (Brest)
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, 4 km from center (Брест, Брэст)
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place with historical importance, abandoned / shut down, fortification, interesting place, listed building / architectural heritage
The wounded and exhausted by lack of water Soviet Major P.Gavrilov who was fighting against Nazis till 23d July 1941, gave his last fighting in the caponier and was captured here.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 52°5'25"N 23°39'10"E
- West Fort 0.2 km
- East Fort 0.3 km
- Citadel of the Brest Fortress 0.6 km
- Brest Fortress 0.9 km
- Former Brest Castle 1.1 km
- Count Berg Fort 1.1 km
- the area of the Jewish ghetto during Nazi occupation in 1941-1942 2.7 km
- Свято-Афанасьевский мужской монастырь 4.8 km
- fortress lebiedziew 8.6 km
- Park 12 km
- Military cemetery 0.2 km
- 1st Bastion 0.2 km
- Kobrin Fortification 0.4 km
- Belarusian Army unit 2187 0.5 km
- Fifth Bastion of the Kobrin Fortification 0.9 km
- 6th Bastion 1.2 km
- Former Brest Castle 1.2 km
- Brest Central Railway Station 1.2 km
- Volynskoye Fortification 1.5 km
- Brest District 20 km