The title of ' Hero City ' was given to which Soviet City first ?
Hero Fortress ( Russian : крепость - герой , " krepost' - geroy " ) is the honorary title awarded to the Soviet Brest Fortress , now in Brest , Belarus ( then part of the Byelorussian SSR ) in 1965 for the defence of the frontier stronghold during the very first weeks of the German - Soviet War of 1941 to 1945 .