In the night between 31 of July and 1 of August, I and my couple friends are visiting the old, abandoned bunkers along the Bug River in eastern Poland. Exactly, village Moszczona Kr\u00f3lewska, near city Siemiatycze. In the forest are hidden 14 bunkers. So in order to not to get lost, we prepared a map with coordinates of all bunkers. We took a flashlight and headlamps, ropes and climbing equipment, I also took my sj5000+ cam, samsung nx300 camera and power bank to record the entire trip.<\/p>\n
Via Wikipedia:<\/p>\n
The so-called Molotov Line<\/b> was a system of border fortified regions<\/a> built by the Soviet Union in the years 1940\u20131941 along its new western borders. These borders where the result of the Occupation of the Baltic States<\/a>, Eastern Poland<\/a> and Bessarabia<\/a> in 1940.<\/p>\n
The line stretched from the Baltic Sea<\/a> to the Carpathian Mountains<\/a>. It was made up of thirteen fortified regions, most covering about 100 km of the border. It was a part of the larger Soviet defence network along its western borders, stretching from the Arctic Ocean<\/a> to the Black Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Each fortified region (in Russian ukreplennyi raion<\/i>, or UR<\/i>) consisted of a large number of concrete bunkers (pillboxes) armed with machineguns, antitank guns and artillery. The bunkers were built in groups for mutual support, each group forming a centre of resistance. A dedicated military unit was permanently assigned to man each region.<\/p>\n
When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 during the course of Operation Barbarossa<\/a>, most of the line was not yet finished, and hence posed a negligible obstacle to the invading forces. Only the four southernmost regions, partly completed, were able to hamper the advance of the Wehrmacht<\/a> for a few days. (The Brest Fortress<\/a> resisted much longer, but it was an older fortification technically not part of the Molotov line).<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nThe ruins of these fortifications, many of them well preserved, can be found today in Lithuania<\/a>, Poland<\/a>, Belarus<\/a> and Ukraine<\/a>. The modern borders are somewhat different from the borders in 1941, and hence some sections of the line do not lie in border zones and are easily accessible. On the other hand, other sections do lie right along the modern Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Belarusian and Lithuanian-Russian borders, so access to them may still be restricted for reasons of border security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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