80 years ago, June 22, 1941, began the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) – the liberation war of the peoples of the USSR against Nazi Germany and its allies, which is the most important and decisive part of World War II (1939-1945) .
Login-engineer of the 65th long expedition to the international space station, the astronaut Roscosmos Oleg Novitsky made a photo of Brest with an near-earth orbit on the day of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Just below the middle of the photo you can see the Brest Fortress, the defenders of which continued to defense at least a month.
In addition, the astronaut Roscosmos Ivan Wagner, who was on board the International Space Station from April to October 2020, published on its official pages on social networks photos-heroes. This title was awarded to 12 cities of the USSR and the Brest fortress, which the first accepted the massive blow of the enemy.
Unfortunately, Murmansk is not available for shooting, because it is located far to the north of the flight of the flight of the ISS, “said Ivan Wagner.