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Favorite thing: This very tall (177 feet) lighthouse built in the early 1920s is active. It is an octagonal unpainted concrete tower with a red lantern and gallery. It is located near the east end of the naval harbor at Kronstadt
Updated Jul 11, 2009
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Favorite thing: The first two photos are of one of the lighthouses that I could identify. Built in 1914, it is an active lighthouse described as a 66 ft octagonal concrete tower with lantern and gallery. The lighthouse is unpainted gray concrete, except the side facing the range is painted black with a white vertical stripe on the range line which is located about 1 mi southwest of the Kronstadt lighthouse. Accessible only by boat. I didn't see the painted range side.
Fondest memory: The other three pictures are of unidentified markers
Updated Jul 11, 2009
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Favorite thing: When you arrive by cruise ship the Kronshtadt on the Kotlin island is a first sight you will see. You can get there from St. Petersburg by bus (from Staraya Derevnya metro), by car along the dam or by boat.
Written Jan 22, 2003
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Favorite thing: The fort was constructed in 1838-45 under the project and administration of engineer-colonel Fan der Veide on an artificial island in Finnish Gulf close to Kronshtadt. It had a task to cover the south water-way to S-Petersburg by cross-fire with forts Peter I, Risbank and Kronshlot together.
Written Feb 25, 2003
I wasn't there in the best of weather and it is very windy there. Kronstadt's main attraction is probably that it used to be a closed city for a long time. It has a historical connection with the...
Kronshtadt - sea fortress of Saint-Petersburg
When you arrive by cruise ship the Kronshtadt on the Kotlin island is a first sight you will see. You can get there from St. Petersburg by bus (from Staraya Derevnya metro), by car along the dam or by...
Kronstadt - Peter I's strategic Naval Island
Peter the Great won possession of Kronstadt (Kotlin Island) and began a naval fortress in 1703, the same year he founded his capital city, Saint Petersburg ...
Kronstadt, also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt is a Russian seaport town, located on Kotlin Island, thirty kilometers west of Saint Petersburg near the head of the Gulf of Finland. It is under the...
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