first of all Briansk is Lithuanian city which was occupied by slavs during Kiev Rus times (Kiev was occupied by novgorod moscovites and turned from Baltic to slavic city), later Lithuania's king Algirdas regained it by inheritence (because it was always Baltic-Lithuanian city). Briansk is situated in the east Baltic tribe's Galindai-Goliady land. DeBriansk is a changed Lithuanian city name Brasta-Brest (meaning a ford or river's crossing) by noting that this city is Briansk on the river Desna (which name means at the right 'desine' of the Dnepr), i.e. Desna Briansk. Moreover -insk- is a slavised Lithuanian suffix, like and Minsk, and originates from Lithuanian suffixe -nishk-...slavs are morons who uses their fairy tales rewritten at least 3 times and the las rewritting was done after occupation of Lithuania in 19th century...all their history chronicles is just a pile of shit...look at hydronims around Briansk and Tula and Kaluga and Kursk and Mozhaisk (all those names are of Lithuanian origin and in ethnic Lithuanian Galinds' land)...at least 20% of them are still remained of Lithuanian origin...like and in Kaliningrad (the real name is Karaliauchius) ruski destroyed old names in Prussia-Lithuania and gave to toponyms and hydronims stupid slavic names...I hate slavic occupants and nazis...Smolensk till 17th century was Lithuania's but after polish-ruski-german agression against Lithuania in 1655 ruski occupants and colonist occupied and annexed this Lithuanian city and land.