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Kronstadt Fortress
Kronstadt Fortress
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KRONSTADT FORTRESS (Kronstadt, 1 Yakornaya Square), museum, a branch of the Central Military and Naval Museum. Organised by A. A. Antipov who also acted as its first director the museum was opened on 8.5.1980 in the building of the Naval Cathedral. The exposition in 7 halls with a total area of 900 square meters contains over 3,000 exhibits, including materials on the history of the Baltic Fleet from the times of Peter the Great to the present day, on the history of building the Kronstadt Fortress, the Gunpowder Plant (today known as Kronstadt Naval Plant), ship docks and other buildings in Kronstadt, on the development of steam and armoured fleet, the role of Kronstadt in the revolutionary movement and the Civil War, as well as in the defence of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. The exhibition features about 100 high-quality ship models, engravings and paintings on the history of the fleet, armament, military equipment, marine maps, authentic documents, portraits and personal belongings of Navy officers. References: Доценко В. Д., Миронов В. Ф. Морские музеи Санкт-Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 2001. С. 30-31. A. D. Margolis.
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Antipov A.A.
Peter I, Emperor
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Yakornaya Square/Kronshtadt, city, house 1
Bibliographies
Доценко В. Д., Миронов В. Ф. Морские музеи Санкт-Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 2001
The subject Index
Central Military and Naval Museum
Naval Cathedral
Kronstadt Fortress
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Forts
FORTS. Fortifications in the area of the Gulf of Finland, built with the purpose of guarding approaches by the enemy to the Kronstadt Fortress. The first Kronschlot sea fort was opened in 1704
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Islands (entry)
ISLANDS. A characteristic trait of St. Petersburg is its many islands, as it is located on the Neva River delta. There were 33 islands with official names in St
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Kotlin, Island
KOTLIN, is an island in the east of the Neva Bay, in the Gulf of Finland. It is 23 kilometres west of Vasilievsky Island, 12 kilometres southwest of Gorskaya, and six kilometres north of Lomonosov
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Kronschlot
KRONSCHLOT, a sea fort, the first fortification of the Kronstadt Fortress. It was founded in the winter of 1703-04 on a shallow in the Gulf of Finland, south of Kotlin Island based on the designs of Tsar Peter the Great
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Kronstadt
KRONSTADT, a town on Kotlin Island, 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg. The town's history traces back to a sea fort called Kronslot built in the winter of 1703-04. By May 1704, two batteries were constructed along the south bank
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Kronstadtsky District
KRONSTADTSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg (Its territory administration is located at 36 Lenina Avenue,.) Formed in 1998, it was named after the city of Kronstadt, which is the district centre
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Lomonosov, town
LOMONOSOV (until 1948 Oranienbaum), a town and municipal unit within Saint Petersburg, the centre of Lomonosovsky District of the Leningrad Region, located 32 kilometres southwest of the city centre on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland
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Naval Cathedral
NAVAL CATHEDRAL of Kronstadt, St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral, located at 1 Yakornaya Square, Kronstadt. The main cathedral of the Baltic Fleet. The idea to build the cathedral was first voiced in 1830, but only in 1897 was the construction committee
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Tkachev P.N. (1844-1885/86), revolutionary, publisist
TKACHEV Peter Nikitich (1844-1885), participant of the revolutionary movement, literary critic, publicist, one of the ideologists of revolutionary Narodnichestvo (Populism). From 1851 lived with his family in St. Petersburg
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