It is a fortified structure on the territory of the Grodno fortress. The fort is situated near the village of Naumovichi in the Grodno region. It was being built along with the other 12 forts from 1912 to 1915.
The fortress was under the state of siege in 1915. Accordingly, there was an evacuation of soldiers, during which the forts had to be blown up. Fort №2 wasn't an exception. Only the breastwork with foxholes remained practically undamaged after the order of the Command had been fulfilled.
During the Great Patriotic War, the fort number II of the Grodno fortress became a place of mass destruction of the inhabitants of the city, nearby villages, as well as of the Soviet prisoners of war and prisoners of the Grodno ghetto. According to a rough estimate, 3,000 people were destroyed here. Jan Kokhanovsky, a teacher at the Grodno gymnasium and the founder of the Grodno Zoowas among them. In October 1942, after the murder of a German gendarme and a police officer, the Nazis took 100 residents of the city hostage, Jan Kokhanovsky being among them. After the repeated appeals of the relatives of the arrested, the fascists released 25 people. Y. Kokhanovsky fell into this number and got the opportunity to be released. However, he made a different decision – he suggested that the Hitlerites shoot him instead of the father of a large family – Jozef Wewiursky, who was a teacher. On October 20, 1942, the hostages were shot on the territory of the fort. Later Grodno citizens managed to bury Jan Kokhanowsky at the city Catholic cemetery. In memory of those tragic events, a monument was erected next to the fort representing a grieving woman laying a wreath on the grave. In 1990, a Catholic cross and black marble slabs were installed, on which the names of Grodno residents were stamped, as well as those of the Polish city of Lipsk residents who were shot on the site during the war.
