At dawn on June 22, 1941 Germany and its allies without declaring the war suddenly attacked the Soviet Union. Soviet troops were raised on alarm by the order of command, but in the frontier Brest Fortress the war itselfwas the alarm.
On eve of the Great Patriotic War on June 21, 2013 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue a postage stamp “Defense of Brest Fortress”. The stamp includes the fragment of painting reproduction of Yevgeni Zaitsev “Defense of Brest Fortress in 1941” (1950).

Designer: Ivan Lukin. Printing: offset. Colour: full colour. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: comb 131/2. Size of stamp: 52x29,6 mm. Edition:  60.000 copies.
The issue is printed in mini sheet of 6 values with decorating margins. Size of sheetlet: 122 x 109 mm. Made at the Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House A. T. Nepogodin.

The postage issue "Chronicles of Victory" pays tribute to the unfading glory of the heroes that conquered the freedom of our Motherland. One of the heroic pages in the history of World War II is the defense of the Brest Fortress in 1941.
The defense of the Brest Fortress became a symbol of indomitable perseverance and courage of the defenders of the Motherland. On May 8, 1965 the Brest Fortress was awarded the honorary title “HeroFortress”.