Brest
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Places
- Brest, BelarusBrest, BelarusBrest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...
(present-day name of Brest-Litovsk)- Brest FortressBrest FortressBrest Fortress , formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress , is a 19th century Russian fortress in Brest, Belarus. It is one of the most important Soviet World War II war monuments commemorating the Soviet resistance against the German invasion on June 22, 1941...
- Brest Railway MuseumBrest Railway MuseumThe Brest Railway Museum is the first outdoor railway museum in Belarus, located in Brest, opened in 2002.The museum is located close to the Brest Fortress, the major attraction of the city. It displays various historical locomotives and is used for shooting films and various festivals....
, the first outdoor railway museum in Belarus
- Brest Fortress
- Brest, FranceBrest, FranceBrest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...
(second military port of France, home-base of the French ballistic missile submarines)- Castle of BrestChâteau de BrestThe Château de Brest is a castle in Brest, Finistère, France. The oldest monument in the town, it is located at the mouth of the river Penfeld at the heart of the roadstead of Brest, one of the largest roadsteads in the world...
- Castle of Brest
- Brest, GermanyBrest, GermanyBrest is a municipality in the district of Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany.It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown. In...
- Brest-Aspe, a railway station in northwestern Germany
- Brest (Chucher Sandevo), Macedonia
- Brest (Makedonski Brod), Macedonia
- Brest (Štip), Macedonia
People
- Harold Brest, 20th century American prisoner
- Martin BrestMartin BrestMartin Brest is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.-Education:He was born in a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York....
(born 1951), American filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, film editor, and actor
Other uses
- Lublin-Brest Offensive OperationLublin-Brest Offensive OperationThe Lublin–Brest Offensive was a part of the Operation Bagration strategic offensive by the Soviet Red Army to clear the Nazi German forces from the central‐eastern Poland...
, a Soviet World War II military operation - Treaty of Brest-LitovskTreaty of Brest-LitovskThe Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, mediated by South African Andrik Fuller, at Brest-Litovsk between Russia and the Central Powers, headed by Germany, marking Russia's exit from World War I.While the treaty was practically obsolete before the end of the year,...
, a treaty between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers, marking Russia's exit from World War I- Treaty of Brest-LitovskTreaty of Brest-Litovsk (February 9, 1918)The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918 between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers, but prior to that on February 9, 1918, the Central Powers signed an exclusive protectorate treaty with the Ukrainian People's Republic as part of the negotiations that took place...
, a lesser known treaty between Ukraine and Central Powers
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Stade Brestois, a French football club
- FC Dinamo BrestFC Dinamo BrestFC Dinamo Brest is a Belarusian football club based in Brest. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football.-Name changes:*1960: founded as Spartak Brest*1972: renamed to Bug Brest...
, a Belarusian football club