# Fort V Museum, Brest > Fort V is the one surviving fort of Brest Fortress’s outer ring you can walk through — a branch of the memorial about 5 km south of central Brest. Tickets are 12 BYN (students 6 BYN). It opens 9:00–18:00, last tickets 17:30, closed Mondays. Allow an hour for the moat, caponiers, unlit tunnels, barracks exhibition and the guns outside. Web page: https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-fort-v - City: [Brest](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest), Belarus - YesGo score: 32/100 (Yes, if nearby) - Time on site: 1 h - With kids: Fine with kids - Ticket: 12 BYN; school pupils and students 6 BYN - With a guest card: MinskCard or Cities & Regions of Belarus: 10.80 BYN, students 5.40 BYN - Opening hours: 9:00–18:00, last tickets 17:30, closed Mondays - Guided tour of the fort: 90 BYN per group of up to 25, 90 minutes (in Russian unless arranged) - Photos in the exhibition rooms: 3 BYN; free outdoors - Getting there: Taxi from the centre ≈ 10–15 minutes; buses unconfirmed - Paying: Bring Belarusian roubles in cash; foreign cards work only patchily - Address: Staradarožnaja vulica 99 (Starodorozhnaya Street), Brest - Coordinates: 52.04752, 23.67285 - Facts checked: 30.10.2026 ## Key facts - **12 BYN** — adult ticket; school pupils and students pay 6 BYN (source: Brest Hero Fortress memorial complex price list, valid from 15.04.2026) - **Closed Mondays** — open 9:00–18:00, last tickets at 17:30 (source: Official memorial website, opening hours page) - **≈ 5 km** — south of central Brest, about 4 km from the Citadel (source: Vedaj.by guide; Dark-Tourism.com) - **1888** — construction completed, after work began in the late 1870s (source: Vedaj.by guide; Know Your Land portal (my-places.by)) - **Five sides** — a pentagon behind an earth rampart and a water-filled moat (source: Vedaj.by guide; Tonkosti travel portal) - **11 casemates** — in the garrison barracks, linked to the caponiers by tunnels (source: Vedaj.by guide; Tonkosti travel portal) - **1908–1914** — rebuilt before WWI, with walls reinforced in concrete (source: Vedaj.by guide; Tonkosti travel portal (concrete from 1908); my-places.by gives 1906–1913) - **1999** — handed to the Brest Hero Fortress memorial as a branch (source: Know Your Land portal (my-places.by); Dark-Tourism.com) - **2000** — opened to visitors as a museum (source: Dark-Tourism.com; Tonkosti travel portal) - **90 minutes** — length of the memorial’s guided tour of the fort (source: Memorial complex price list, valid from 15.04.2026) > **Closed on Mondays — and it’s a trek** Fort V sits on the southern edge of town, so check the day before you set off: it is shut every Monday and the ticket desk stops selling at 17:30. Leave the centre by 16:30 at the latest. The tunnels and casemates are dark and damp even in July — bring a torch and a jacket. ## What is Fort V? It is a real late-19th-century fort rather than a memorial: a **pentagon** of earth ramparts, a water-filled moat, concrete caponiers and a brick barracks. It was one of the ring of forts guarding Brest-Litovsk Fortress, and the only one restored and open to visitors — the rest are overgrown ruins. Work finished in 1888, and the fort was rebuilt just before the First World War, its walls thickened with concrete. It never saw a major battle; sources disagree on what happened here in 1939 and 1941. After the war it served as a depot and then stood empty. In 1999 the fort was handed to the **Brest Hero Fortress** memorial, and it has been a museum since 2000. It is a branch of the memorial but stands on its own, about 4 km from [Brest Fortress](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-fortress), with a separate ticket. ## Fort V tickets and prices An adult ticket is **12 BYN**; school pupils and students pay **6 BYN**. With a MinskCard or the Cities & Regions of Belarus guest card it is 10.80 and 5.40 BYN. These prices come from the memorial’s official price list, valid since 15 April 2026. Taking photos in the exhibition rooms costs 3 BYN; shooting outdoors, on the ramparts and by the guns is free. A guided tour for a group of up to 25 lasts 90 minutes and costs 90 BYN. The price list doesn’t mention foreign-language tours for the fort, so ask when you book. **Paying:** carry Belarusian roubles in cash. Visa and Mastercard issued abroad work in Belarus only patchily, Russian-issued Visa and Mastercard not at all, while Mir cards are widely accepted. Withdraw cash in town before you head out — on the outskirts, and in many local taxis, cash is the safe bet. ## What to see at Fort V - **The moat** — you cross it on a wooden footbridge by the entrance; the classic shot is the caponier with its gun ports above the water. - **The caponiers** — concrete gun positions built to sweep the moat in both directions. Walk inside and look out through the embrasures. - **The barracks**, eleven casemates long, with an exhibition on fortification, the fortress ring and recreated soldiers’ quarters and office rooms. Labels are mostly in Russian. - **The tunnels** linking the buildings — pitch dark and unlit, and the main reason people make the trip. - **The ramparts** — climb up for a view over the whole pentagon and its moats. - **Artillery and an armoured personnel carrier** on the lawn — WWII-era guns displayed in the open. ## Is Fort V worth visiting? Yes, if you want to see how the fortress actually worked. At Brest Fortress itself you mostly get monuments, ruins and barracks; here you walk right through an intact fort, down into the tunnels and up onto the ramparts. It is far quieter than the Citadel, so you often have whole passages to yourself. Skip it if you only have half a day in Brest — see the main fortress first. If tunnels and old guns don’t excite you, the round trip to the outskirts won’t pay off. ## How long do you need? An **hour to an hour and a half** is enough for the fort itself; a guided tour takes 90 minutes plus time outside. It pairs well with the main fortress: the Citadel in the morning, Fort V by taxi after lunch, back in the centre for dinner. ## How to get to Fort V 1. Start on Sovetskaya Street by the Brest Millennium Monument — the fort is about 5 km south, at Starodorozhnaya Street 99. 2. Taxi is the easy option: about 10–15 minutes from the centre, or about 10 minutes from the main entrance of Brest Fortress. Ask for “Pyaty Fort, Starodorozhnaya 99”. 3. By bus (unconfirmed): one Russian-language guide lists buses 1 and 20 and minibus 2 nearby, while an English guide says no public transport serves the fort. Check a live route on a map app before relying on it. 4. Walking from the fortress takes over an hour through unremarkable suburbs — we don’t recommend it. 5. There is free parking by the fort. The ticket desk is by the car park; cross the moat on the footbridge to the entrance. 6. Book your return taxi in advance — free cars can be slow to turn up on the outskirts. > **Torch, jacket, grippy shoes** The tunnels have no lighting and the casemates are cold and damp. A phone torch will do, but a power bank helps. Wear shoes with a decent grip — the ramparts are grassy and the floors inside wet. Keep small children close: it is dark and the floor is uneven. ## Before you go: checklist - [ ] It isn’t Monday - [ ] I’ll reach the desk before 17:30 - [ ] Belarusian roubles in cash - [ ] Torch or a charged phone - [ ] A jacket for the casemates - [ ] Comfortable shoes - [ ] A plan for getting back ## Fort V, Brest Fortress or Berestye? | | Fort V Museum | Brest Fortress | Berestye | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | What it is | A whole fort: moat, caponiers, tunnels | Memorial, ruins, museums | Excavated medieval town | | Where | Outskirts, ≈ 5 km from the centre | In town, 2.5 km from the centre | On the fortress grounds | | Entry | 12 BYN | Grounds free, museums 12 BYN | Own ticket | | Closed | Monday | Museums Mon or Tue | Check locally | | Time needed | 1–1.5 h | 2–3 h | ≈ 1 h | On a first visit, start with the main fortress. Fort V is the second step — it shows how the fortress was actually built. [Berestye](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/berestye-museum) is for history older than the 20th century. ## History in Brest compared Brest’s historic sights rated by YesGo. - [Brest Fortress](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-fortress) — YesGo score 55/100 (Yes, go) · 2 h 30 min · Grounds free, museum 12 BYN - [Sovetskaya Street](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-sovetskaya-street) — YesGo score 44/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Free, open 24/7 - [St Nicholas Brotherhood Church](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-st-nicholas-church) — YesGo score 44/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 20 min · Free - [Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-holy-cross-church) — YesGo score 44/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 20 min · Free - [Brest Railway Museum](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-railway-museum) — YesGo score 37/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · ≈ 7 BYN, unofficial - [Berestye Archaeological Museum](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/berestye-museum) — YesGo score 36/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 45 min · 8.45 BYN, school pupils 4.15 BYN - [Fort V](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-fort-v) — YesGo score 32/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · 12 BYN, students 6 BYN - [Kamenets Tower](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/kamenets-tower) — YesGo score 24/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · 8.45 BYN; rooftop by tour only ## Brest in a day: fortress and fort The centre and fortress in the morning, Fort V by taxi after lunch. 1. [Sovetskaya Street](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-sovetskaya-street) — YesGo score 44/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Free, open 24/7 2. [Brest Railway Museum](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-railway-museum) — YesGo score 37/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · ≈ 7 BYN, unofficial 3. [Brest Fortress](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-fortress) — YesGo score 55/100 (Yes, go) · 2 h 30 min · Grounds free, museum 12 BYN 4. [Berestye Archaeological Museum](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/berestye-museum) — YesGo score 36/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 45 min · 8.45 BYN, school pupils 4.15 BYN 5. [Fort V](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-fort-v) — YesGo score 32/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · 12 BYN, students 6 BYN ## Good to know Not to be confused with Fort No. 5 in Kaliningrad (King Frederick William III), Fort V in Warsaw or the Kaunas forts — this page is about the fifth fort of Brest Fortress in Belarus. Locally it is called Pyaty Fort or Muzey 5 Fort. ## Tips - Go after the main fortress: Fort V stays open until 18:00 and is quiet in the afternoon too. - Start at the caponier over the moat for photos, then head into the tunnels. - Want context? Book the 90-minute guided tour ahead and ask about a language other than Russian. - Carry cash — on the outskirts it is more reliable than a card. - After rain the ramparts are slippery; wear shoes with grip. - Stay off collapsed sections of the ramparts and out of closed casemates. - Back in town, finish on [Sovetskaya Street](https://yesgo.io/belarus/brest/brest-sovetskaya-street) — it is the easiest place for dinner. ## Questions ### Where is Fort V in Brest? On the southern edge of the city, at Starodorozhnaya Street 99 — about 5 km from the centre and 4 km from the Brest Fortress Citadel. ### What are Fort V opening hours? 9:00–18:00, with the last tickets at 17:30. It is closed on Mondays. ### How much is a ticket to Fort V? 12 BYN for adults and 6 BYN for school pupils and students; 10.80 and 5.40 BYN with a MinskCard. ### How do I get to Fort V from the centre? Take a taxi — about 10–15 minutes. Bus routes nearby are unconfirmed, so check a map app if you want to go by bus. ### Is Fort V worth it? Yes, if you want to walk through a real fort and its tunnels. With only half a day in Brest, see the main fortress instead. ### How long does a visit take? An hour to an hour and a half; the guided tour lasts 90 minutes. ### Can you go into the tunnels? Yes, the passages between the buildings are open. They are unlit, so bring a torch. ### Is Fort V part of Brest Fortress? It is a branch of the memorial but a separate site on the outskirts, with its own ticket, about 4 km south of the main complex. ### Can I pay by card? Don’t count on it. Foreign cards work patchily in Belarus; bring Belarusian roubles in cash. This is unofficial information. ## How we checked Opening hours, the weekly day off, ticket prices, guest-card prices, the guided tour and the photo fee come from the memorial’s official website on 30.10.2026 (price list valid from 15.04.2026). Whether foreign-language tours are offered at the fort is not stated, so that row is marked “verifying”. Other facts are checked against at least two sources. Dates differ — construction began in 1878 or 1879, and the rebuild is given as 1908–1914 or 1906–1913 — so we give the overall span. One source says the fort took the German attack in 1939 and 1941, another that it changed hands without a fight, so we make no claim either way. The fort’s area given in one source is implausible and is left out. Bus numbers appear in only one guide while another says there is no public transport, so they are marked unconfirmed. Card acceptance is unofficial. ## Sources - Brest Hero Fortress memorial complex, official website: opening hours, price list (valid from 15.04.2026), tickets, 30.10.2026 - Vedaj.by guide: Fifth fort of Brest fortress - Know Your Land portal (my-places.by): Brest, Fort V - Dark-Tourism.com: 5th Fort, Brest - Tonkosti travel portal: 5th Fort Museum - 34travel: Brest guide - ATM Fee Saver: Money & Currency in Belarus, 2026; Visasam: bank cards in Belarus, 2026 --- This is the Markdown version of a YesGo page for AI assistants. Quote the web page link above, not this file.