Every four years, Brest hosts the international festival of the sea, boats and sailors: it is a meeting of old riggings from around the world.

Brest international airport, Brest Bretagne Airport, is mainly linked to Paris, London, Nice, Lyon, Dublin.

He impressed in the Olympic team's 4 – 0 win over Romania in Brest, a result made even more impressive by the fact that Romania had fielded a full international side for the Olympic qualifier.

Rivne is an important transportation hub, with the international Rivne Airport, and rail links to Zdolbuniv, Sarny and Kovel, as well as highways linking it with Brest, Kiev and Lviv.

Brest Bretagne Airport, main airport of the Brittany ( administrative region ) | region of Brittany

* IATA airport code for the Brest, Belarus airport

Arrival of the DSRV Avalon at Brest, France | Brest airport aboard a C-5 Galaxy strategic airlift er.

Paris – Brest – Paris ( PBP ), which began in 1891, is the oldest bicycling event still run on a regular basis on the open road, covers over and imposes a 90-hour time limit.

Chomsky (,,,, " from ( Vyoska ) Khomsk ( nearby Brest, now Belarus )") is a Belarus '- origin surname, and may refer to:

The Daily Universal Register of 11 November 1786 had stated: " the Botany Bay scheme is laid aside, as there is a strong presumption that a squadron from Brest are now, or soon will be, in possession of the very spot we meant to occupy in New Holland ".

Elsewhere, ethnic Poles constitute large minorities in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine: Polish is the most widely used minority language in Lithuania's Vilnius County ( 26 % of the population, according to the 2001 census results ) and is found elsewhere in southeastern Lithuania ; in Ukraine it is most common in the Lviv and Lutsk regions, while in Western Belarus it is used by the significant Polish minority especially in the Brest and Grodno regions and in areas along the Lithuanian border.

The oldest known oxygen rebreather was patented on June 17, 1808 by Sieur Touboulic from Brest, mechanic in Napoleon's Imperial Navy, but there is no evidence of any prototype having been manufactured.

* June 13 – The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck, which was sunk in 1941, is located west of Brest, France.

It was built in 2003 in Norway, is based in Brest, France | Brest, belongs to SURF and is used by the French Navy.

It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal, and is named in English after the province of Biscay, in the Spanish Basque Country.

Brest (; ) is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany in northwestern France.

Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon.

The city is located on the western edge of continental Europe, hence the expression « Europe from Brest to Brest ».

With 142, 722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest is at the centre of Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area ( with a population of 300, 300 in total ), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 22nd most populous city in France ; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany.

Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the préfecture ( regional capital ) of the department is the much smaller Quimper.

Nowadays, Brest is an important university town with 23, 000 students.

Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre, le Cedre ( Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution ) and the French Polar Institute.

The main French fleets were at Brest in Brittany and at Toulon on the Mediterranean coast.

There he received orders from Napoleon to resume to Brest according to the main plan.

Being situated on the main railway line connecting Berlin and Moscow, and an intercontinental highway ( the European route E30 ), Brest became a principal border crossing since World War II in Soviet times.

Dr. C. Hannoun, leading expert of the 1918 flu for the Institut Pasteur, asserted the former virus was likely to have come from China, mutated in the United States near Boston, and spread to Brest, Brittany-France, Europe's battlefields, Europe, and the world using Allied soldiers and sailors as main spreaders.

Further afield, one of the main streets of the city of Brest as well as another in Marseilles have been named " Rue de Siam " to commemorate Narai's missions.

The next day, although the U. S. VIII Corps continued to advance west through Brittany toward the ports of Brest and Lorient, Bradley ordered Patton to drive eastward with the main body of the U. S. Third Army, around the open German flank and into the German rear areas.

The Dutch fleet provided a substantial reinforcement to the French forces in Northern European waters, which were principally based at Brest on the Atlantic Ocean and whose main opponent was the Royal Navy's Channel Fleet.

Its main base was Brest Bretagne Airport.

The main forces of Field Marshal Dybich were marching towards Warsaw from the direction of Lublin while the Corps of General Geismar was marching along the Brest road.

The main port the Allied forces hoped to seize and put into their service was Brest, in northwestern France.

Bridport had ordered Warren to take his convoy on to Quiberon while the main body of the Channel Fleet stood further out to sea to intercept any attack by the French Atlantic Fleet which Bridport assumed would advance southwards from Brest.

* 2 ISPs in the Brest region, 4 in the Gomel region, 1 in the Grodno region, 26 in the Minsk region, 1 in the Mogilev region, and 1 in the Vitebsk region

In March 1918, in the Brest-Litovsk fortress on the western outskirts of Brest at the confluence of the Bug River and Mukhavets Rivers, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, ending the war between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers and transferring the city and its surrounding region to the sphere of influence of the German Empire.

The village of Kosova, where Tadeusz Kościuszko was born, is also in the Brest region and features a 19th-century palace and a nice Roman Catholic church.

Polesia is a marshy region lining the Pripyat River in Southern Belarus ( Brest, Pinsk, Kalinkavichy, Homel ), Northern Ukraine ( in the Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Kiev, and Chernihiv Oblasts ), and partly in Poland ( Lublin ) and Russia ( Bryansk ).

The SGO was created by the orders of Polish Commander in Chief on 9 and 11 September due to German breakthroughs and was tasked with defending the region of Polesie ( see also Polesie Voivodeship ), defined by the lines of Muchawiec and Prypeć rivers, with the towns of Brześć ( Brest ) and Pińsk ( where the SGO HQ was located ).

The Pinsk Marshes (), also known as the Pripyat or Pripet Marshes () and the Rokitno Marshes, are a vast natural region of wetlands along the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest, Belarus ( west ) to Mogilev ( northeast ) and Kiev ( southeast ).

El Goyco also played a few months in 1991 for the team Stade Brestois 29 from Brest in the region of Brittany, which was then named Brest Armorique, and was in the French second division and included players David Ginola, Corentin Martins and Stéphane Guivarc ' h.

This ridge, consisting of low, rolling hills, runs for about 500 km in the direction from west-southwest to east-northeast, from the area of the Brest region, which is close to the border of Poland to the Russian town of Smolensk.