The search engine has listed the main finds on the territory of the Brest fortress in recent years.

Thanks to the efforts of the search engines, the names of nine participants in the defense of the Brest Fortress were recovered, as well as the documents of the commander of the 45th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht, General Fritz Schlieper, were found. Isa Sardalov, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and chairman of the council of the regional branch of the Search Movement of Russia in the Chechen Republic, told Izvestia about this.

According to him, the main task of the search teams involved in the defense of the Brest fortress is to find out who was in the fortress at the time of the attack and took part in military operations.

"Thanks to the work we have done in recent years, the names of two of our compatriots have been placed on memorial plaques. These are Elmurzaev Elim and Esmurziev Bisultan from Ingushetia. And seven people were approved as participants in the defense of the Brest Fortress. And now we still have 11 people working. I think we'll be done with them in a year," the search engine shared.

Sardalov and other search engines traveled more than once to Germany, Belarus, Crimea, as well as to the archives of Gatchina, Podolsk and other Russian cities.

"In the archives of Belarus, we worked on the files of the partisan movement. There we found documents and characteristics on two of our compatriots who took part in the defense of the Brest fortress. Other documents have been found in German archives that testify to the fierce battles that took place in Brest, and how the operation to storm the Brest Fortress was being prepared. Among other things, I received a copy of the personnel file of the commander of the 45th Infantry Division, General Schlieper," he said.

Sardalov stressed that the archival documents reflect the feat of Soviet soldiers and commanders of the Red Army.

"There was one report, I also handed over the Brest Fortress. This is a 13-page report from the commander of the 45th Infantry Division, General Schlieper. It is addressed directly to the Fuhrer. General Schlieper writes that the soldiers of the Red Army are fighting bravely, courageously. And he gives the example of one of our Red Army soldiers. That is, in such a serious document, General Schlieper also allowed himself to reflect the spirit of the Red Army," Sardalov said proudly.

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