Fort "Grand Duke Konstantin". Fort "Grand Duke Konstantin" Fort Konstantin Historical Cultural Center who owns

Another reason for pride for our country is the Kronstadt forts. The approaches to the capital of the empire were guarded very seriously: 21 forts were built in the Finnish bay, the main goal of which was not to go through the enemy fleet to the main sea base of the country, and even more so the capital.

Now the majority of forts are destroyed and abandoned, some preserved military presence, although the main function of defensive structures is already half a century, as they have lost.

And one of the most famous, Konstantin, today is leased to private traders: he is restored to make a museum of fortification from him. On it and walk.

1. Fort Konstantin is one of the largest. It is located on the very island of Kotlin, where the city of Kronstadt is located. Now all this is administratively related to St. Petersburg. Almost through the fort itself, the ring road running into a freshly built tunnel under the bay. The photo shows her piece with a terrestrial transition.

2. Today is the place, as I wrote - Museum. Many facilities of the complex were destroyed, now they are actively restored, but the construction of a tunnel under the bay and years do not give builders to restore the fort rather quickly: very often the buildings flooded water, and it is necessary to start all.

3. There are no guns for a long time, but the attachments remained. For tourists built wooden flooring ladies: climb and photograph how much fit: no state secret here and does not smell, all the premises are also empty.

4. The Chief Farvater Bay over the past two hundred years has changed not much. As you can see, the fort pass is simply impossible. Now here every morning and every evening there are dozens of huge barges with cargo and liners with tourists. Here, just between these two pseudomates.

5. Here the construction of a flood protection complex is completed.

6. If climbing higher is the warehouse. In these containers, anything - from coffee to new McBooks :) And last year at the Fort Pier (actually there should be no such thing, but built, now there is a yacht club) organized a checkpoint through the state border of Russia for small vessels .

7. On the history of fort. In 1808, the British was charged in the Baltic Sea area. Our reacted instantly, deciding "to build a battery in two tiers for 45 guns." On sandings in the northern part of the Kronstadt raid, wooden logs were installed, which were covered with a stone. On this basis, the construction of a wooden battery began on this basis for 1.5 meters.

8. The battery, called "Double Southern", was armed with twenty-five 36-pound, twelve 30-pound guns and twelve unicorn. The garrison consisted of 250 people. During flooding on November 6, 1824, the battery suffered less than other Forts of Kronstadt and was fully restored by the spring of 1826. In 1834, a caponier was built to protect against a possible attack from the rear in Gorge (also on a falling wooden basis), which formed the inner harbor open from two sides. Around the battery, at a distance of about 200 m, two rows of piles were clogged into the bottom of the bay to prevent the approximation of enemy ships.

9. In the same year, Emperor Nicholas I after my visit to the battery commanded it to the fort "Konstantin" in honor of his son of the Grand Prince Konstantin Nikolayevich, who in 1831 at the age of 4 was appointed General Admiral General of the Russian Fleet.

10. In the early 1850s, due to the templement, the wooden structures of the fort decided to disassemble. Works were completed by the spring of 1854. In connection with the beginning of the Crimean War, a temporary battery No. 4. The Maritime Office decided to create a more powerful and modern fortification with an escarp wall from granite on the site of the old fort. This strengthening should have been protected from artillery fire, as well as providing protection against enemy landings.

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12. Further until the very end of the 19th century there were a lot of improvements and innovations, which you can read on Wikipedia. There are many technical details for fortification lovers, we are also interested in the practical purpose of the premises of the fort, right?

13. This beautiful green building was for the soldier's place of service, and literally ten meters from him another building, so the home is at all.

14. There were barracks. Do not see that the building is not very pretty outside.

15. Inside even worse. There were beds.

16. And this is a two-story building - and barracks, and a combat compartment at the same time. On the first one, the part of the garrison lived, which could have been afraid after a few minutes after lifting the alarm in the enemy from the guns.

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18. The guns themselves were located in such deposits.

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20. On the first floor, in the bays of the left was kept, which was brought to the gun here on such a mini-"narrow scene."

21. And then shells rose to the second floor with a winch.

22. On the appointment of rooms in this corridor is still arguing. One person told me that there were big warehouses for shells, a guest was located in the compartments only for watch battle. Another version - the spare guns were kept here. But how they were rolled out and raised up during the battle - it is not clear.

23. This hall was the main tools of Fort Konstantin.

24. Of the four Ambrazurs, the huge blows were sticking out, ready to crush the fleet of the enemy in the fluff and dust.

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29. Command Point. From here it is seen the whole picture of the battle.

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31. "To throw money on the restoration of forty," and the shooter directed toward the loophole. Whether the joke, or seriously.

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34. And on the backyards of the fort I found a barrel of a small gun.

35. And three dozen soldier beds, already Soviet.

36. Fort took part in the Great Patriotic War. After its completion, when the arms race and the technologies of the massacre of people began rapidly rushed into heaven, Fort was outdated, was abandoned, looted and forgotten.

37. A cool museum will be obtained here from this place - time will show. In the meantime, the object is of interest to lovers military historyBut not for the masses of tourists: they need to put the beds in the rooms, and the popcorn from the loopholes to sell.

One of the main attractions of Kronstadt was the artillery fort "Grand Duke Konstantin". This place attracts tourists not only by its history and fortification structures, erected in the XIX century.

Now there are excursions, including on the ferry, there is a museum of lighthouses, an active recreation park "Kingvinch", yacht club. You can rent Drift Tryk, and then, after a rich program, snack in a local cafe. On the island there is a floating hotel in which guests can stay for several days.

Also annually there are various events. For example, military historical reconstructions, a festival of retroganniki, air coins, competitions for extreme sports, celebrate the Day of the Navy.

Excursions to Fort "Grand Duke Konstantin"

Excursions are held all year round. In the summer of Fort, the ferry "Rieberpan" is sent. It takes excursions to all the Forts of Kronstadt. In winter, you can visit only a sightseeing tour of the Fort "Grand Duke Konstantin". Move at this time of year will have to walk.

The guide will tell you about the history of the fort, its creation, will hold on all facilities. You will learn how the sea fortress was arranged, and how the sailors in the XIX century were served on the island of Kotlin.

The cost of visiting Fort.

• entry 100 rubles per person;
• children up to 7 years old;
• entrance by car - 150 rubles;
• the cost of guide services - 1000 rubles per hour per group of 1 to 45 people.

History of Fort "Konstantin"

In 1807, Alexander I issued a decree to strengthen the Kronstadt fortress. The reason for this was not easy relationship with England. The artillery battery was built in two tiers of a pine timber.

In the back of the battery there were bars for the storage of ammunition and one-story guard house. Work on the construction of these structures was completed in 1808. By the way, initially the Fort was called the southern battery.

In November 1824, due to heavy flood (water rose by 3.5 meters) and hurricane wind, many batteries in Kronstadt were damaged. Then they thought about making fortifications not from wood, but from stone.

The form of forts from the Finnish Gulf during the Crimean War stopped the Anglo-French squadron from the attack on Kronstadt. After the enemies left the bay, preparation began to restructure the temporary fortifications from the tree - they were decided to make stone. Works began in 1858 and ended in three years. At the same time, Fort became known as Konstantinovsky. In October 1863, by order of the main engineering department, the defense of the fort was strengthened by three bruthera (earth embossed for covering from enemy shots).

Then to enhance the fort Konstantinov battery combined with the fourth battery. The left flank lengthened 80 meters - the kruppi guns were installed there. At the right flange, a barrack was built, which was strengthened by a two-meter stone wall and an earthwood shaft.

In 1868, another brush and barracks were built there. In 1890, on the built dam, which led to Kotlin island (there is Kronstadt and Fort "Konstantin"), laid railway. In 1896, part of the harbor was poured for the expansion of the fort. They removed all metal bars and erected a concrete battery.

Fort was not involved during the First World War and Civil wars. But during the Great Patriotic War Fort has become powerful support for defenders of Oranienbaum Bridgehead.

In the 1960s, Fort is excluded from the list of fortification facilities and disarm. In the 80s of the XX century, the Fort is used as a motorcycle.

From 2000 to 2005, musical festivals were arranged on the territory of Fort, and since 2006, a cultural and tourist center and yacht club appear there. There are still various festivals and historical reconstructions.

Cultural and sports complex

In addition to the Fort excursions, there you can visit the museum of lighthouses or to engage in extreme sports. You can also relax with friends and stay at the hotel on the water.

Museum of Mayakov

For the Fort "Grand Duke Konstantin" there is a museum of lighthouses. It is located in the renovated barracks of 1870. You will be able to learn how the lighthouses have changed for several centuries, you will also see exhibits - devices that are used on lighthouses, buoyes and navigation signs of Russia, CIS countries and Europe, as well as special lights, sextant and star globe.

Museum mode

• works from Tuesday to Friday from 16:00 to 20:00,
• on Saturday and Sunday - from 12:00 to 20:00;
• monday - day off.

Ticket price

• visiting the museum with a guide - 250 rubles;
• schoolchildren, students and pensioners - 150 rubles.

Active recreation park "Kingvinch"

On the island of Kotlin is a park of active recreation "Kingwinch" (Kingwinch). There is a clodmer, trampoline, rope town, you can ride a wakeboard, work out the kitesurfing and weixserving. In the park you can simply relax a large company, renting a barbecue gazebo.

Operating mode

• park works from Monday to Friday 12:00 to 22:00,
• on Saturday and Sunday - from 11:00 to 23:00.

Service cost

• wakeboard riding - from 400 to 500 rubles;
• rope town - from 250 to 300 rubles;
• blinder and trampolines - from 250 to 300 rubles;
• rental of arbors - from 600 to 5,000 rubles;
• kiteSerfing - 350 rubles;
• wakesurfing - from 1800 to 2000 rubles.

How to get

Fort is open for visiting around the clock. The hotel located on its territory also works around the clock.

You can get to Fort in several ways:

• on buses number 101, 101a to the Kronstadt highway stop, then on foot 2 kilometers;
• on bus number 405 to stop

  Fort "Konstantin" on Google-Panorama

  Fort "Grand Duke Konstantin" on video

1808 year. The beginning of the war with Sweden. Union Sweden english Fleet Forersides the expanses of the Baltic, intercepting Russian vessels. On the island of Gogland, an English landing was landed. English military vessels began to approach Kronstadt. The maritime department was decided to "build a battery in two tiers for 45 guns."
The work began in the winter - the logs and stones on the shore were preparing. In the spring, when the ice went, the logs took away the galleces to the construction site of the new battery - the northern part of the Kronstadt raid. On shames, a depth of about two meters, they started setting up a ripple: the logs fell asleep from the courts.
Based on a 1.5 meter rumped over the order, a wooden bunk battery was built.

Battery sizes:

Valgang - about 3 m above the order;
Length is about 170 m;
Width - about 10 m.

Battery weapons:

36-pound guns - 25;
30-pound guns - 12;
Unicorns - 12.

Battery garrison - 250 people.

The battery was called - Double South. Despite the shortest timing of the battery structure, the structure turned out to be strong. At flooding on November 6, 1824, it suffered less than other Kronstadt military fortifications. The battery was completely restored by spring 1826. According to its sample, after the flood, Fort Rybank was reconstructed.

Fort Constantine (Double Southern Battery) (Russia, Leningrad region, about. Kotlin, Kronstadt, 59 ° 59'37 "s. sh. 29 ° 42'20 "in. d.)

We prefer to go to Kotlin from the south, through Lomonosov, attract calm highway and beautiful views from the car window. From here and it is more convenient to turn the fort with the CAD. Fort Konstantin was not in our plans, it simply rained, and we were near. Entrance to the territory of 150 rubles. per hour, but you can leave the car on an external parking lot for free. Entrance tickets are symbolic money, and give the right to visit all bastion structures. Despite the heavy rain, we were so plunged into the atmosphere of the place that they did not notice as flying more than two hours. In good weather here you can stay much longer.
The history of Constantine is described in a wonderful material. L.I. Amirkhanova, V.F. Tkachenko ("Forts of Kronstadt"): "In the summer of 1808, in the place of the currently existing fort, Konstantin erected a village-name battery. Fort was built on several other technology than before. Log cabins cut off on the shore, the benefit of the place of the battery is only 800 meters away. As soon as the bay was cleared of ice, The logs took away the galleces to the place of construction.

The stone was loaded with a barge approached. Round performed over the order of 1.5 m. On top of the rj upper structure From logs. Valgan's first tier erected now over the order of 3 m. The second tier of the battery was collected from wooden bars. The battery was armed with the 45th guns. The name "double" reflected the bunk battery design. The wooden battery design forced the builders of the fortress to constantly repair and strengthen the hydraulic structures of the battery. In front of the Escarp, installed in for different years And rudge, and "bushes" of piles to protect structures from ice-growing in spring. But with all alterations and reconstructions, the battery due to its wooden design was still temporary. And this temporary state was delayed almost half a century. In 1857, finally, they decided to rebuild the battery completely in stone. Future fort Konstantin on long years He became a real "test polygon" for various innovations in marine fortification.

In winter, the new, 1858, began work on the study of the bottom of the bay at the place of construction. On the palm of the old wooden battery, there were a temporary town of builders and stored the necessary materials for the construction of a new battery. A powerful escarp wall was built of granite blocks on the pile base. Between piles put a concrete mix. Before the base along the entire length of the Escarp wall, a solid line of rudge was covered, punched with a tongue line. This design of the Escarp wall was used and then, when building new fortress forts already in the 20th century. It should be noted that concrete in those years, in the modern sense of the word, was not. Portland cement has not appeared, and the basis of concrete was lime. But, nevertheless, the construction was extremely durable - it stands and today without a precipitate, despite the widely unfolded in 1986 construction works On the construction of the structures of the complex of protective structures of Leningrad from flooding, and, simply speaking, dams, directly affected by Fort Konstantin. By the summer of 1861, work on the formation of a new island in stone clothes were completed. Work began on the device of various kinds of batteries on the territory of the fort. For the first time in the fortress, Kronstadt on Fort Konstantin was built batteries with armored bruthera three various systems For the first row guns. In 1863-1864, a battery with armored brushners elevated to the fort. Between the brushners were built of bricks and granite vaulted buildings sprinkled with soil. Only the back wall remained open. One of the bars for the so-called instruments of the digger action, has been preserved to the present day and it can be examined and even touch. Huge costs of his dismantling, apparently, and rescued Bruvier from "Commier" - L.I. Amirkhanov, V.F. Tkachenko "Forts of Kronstadt".

Card Island Kotlin with Forts http://andcvet.narod.ru/




"In subsequent years, the territory of Fort Konstantin expanded and rebuilt. The wooden battery was dismantled, and a new battery appeared in her place, already permanent. The batteries were connected by a jumper, so the fort now has such an unusual form. One of the armor bars, without disassembling, moved on Special wooden sleds, to give a new director of shooting 11-inch rifle guns. In those years, it was the largest caliber in the coastal artillery, and, nevertheless, it was at the Fort Konstantin who built the caasemates for two 13.5-inch experimental guns. Casemates have survived Until now. There was a unique hiding installation into two 11-inch guns. After the shot, the platform with the guns through the steam machine was lowered into a special loading well. This achieved a reliable protection of gunsmanship from enemy shots. Charged guns for a shot rose to the top position . The project of this system has developed a well-known construction engineer G.E. Puker, and its construction completely ended by 1879.
The installation system of the guns behind armor bars had one significant disadvantage - too small angle of targeting the horizon limited to the size of the embrasure. Partially solved the tower installations that allowed the circular shelling, but they were too complicated and expensive. Artillery in those years developed with an unprecedented speed. To change, a few primitive smooth-bore tools, charged from the blow, came the era of complex, rod, long-range guns, charged from the government unit. The rapidity of such guns has also increased, and on a separate battery did not need big number guns. A smooth-bore model of the sample of 1834 made one shot of five minutes. The cana of the Sample of 1890 - six shots per minute. The amount passed into quality.

Planet Urbantrip. Megaliths Fort Konstantin in Kronstadt

The era of the caseabled and armor-friendly batteries went into the past. And here Fort Konstantin was the first. The end of the XIX century brought new Materialwhich began to be widely used in the construction of new Forts of Kronstadt. Portland cement became them. Now based on it was a concrete mix. But at first it was required to experience. In 1890, a few fortification buildings "full profiles" elevated on the Western tip of Kotlin. The buildings were given time for a complete set of concrete strength. Then they were shelling from various serf guns of caliber from 6 to 11 inches. On the basis of the experienced experiments, Konstantin erected two new batteries from concrete on Portland cement, on the site of disassembled armor bars. The island has expanded on the left flank built a battery for eight new 6-inch guns of the Cané system. Battery design has become typical for the construction of new forts in the future. At the right flank fort, the fortroom built a concrete, battery for eight 11-inch guns. Some of the old buildings were modernized, the part was demolished. Construction was conducted from 1897 to 1901 years. By 1914, the fort was in service with the state: two - 13.5-inch guns, ten - 11-inch (two of them on the hiding machines), two - 10-inch, eight - 6-inch, four - 120 mm . The First World War did not affect the Kronstadt fortress, and in the Great Patriotic Fort Konstantin led the fire on the enemy's batteries on the southern shore of the Finnish bay and anti-aircraft guns on the Luftwaffe aircraft.

Recent work on the fort was carried out in the 1950s, when the battery guns can be rearmed with new 130-mm guns. The guns of the courtyards were converted, closing them from the rear by concrete walls. In the early 1960s, the Fort was left for the military, and was subjected to robbery - here worked "commune". As a result, many Fort metal structures are lost forever.
During the years of construction of protective structures from flooding, the builders turned the fort in the autobomy, which also did not benefit the forts of the fort. With the new century, the situation began to change, CJSC "Sea League" led to the territory of the Fort, partial works on the conservation of the caasemates were produced, steel staircases were restored on a 6-inch battery. Put, temporary handrails on the upper bitter cut. Fort today, even with unfulfilled restoration work, is a unique monument where you can see fortification buildings of various eras, starting from the first half of the XIX century. The structure of Fort, built and upgraded during the century, requires a device on its territory, in the museum of the Museum of Maritime Fortification of the Kronstadt Fortress. Unfortunately, due to the construction of protective structures of St. Petersburg, Fort stopped being the island, which gave him a special flavor. The unknown work on the construction of the pit directly from Escarp Fort, damaged the battery with armor brush. The battery gave a precipitate, cracked, but not too late to save the unique, the only one in Kronstadt, and maybe in the world, the armor-friendly battery of Fort Konstantin - L.I. Amirkhanov, V.F. Tkachenko "Forts of Kronstadt".

Literature:
L.I. Amirkhanov, V.F. Tkachenko Forts of Kronstadt, ed-E 2, "Island", 2006, p. 18-23.

Fort Museum

Fort "Konstantin" today

Today, Fort Konstantin is not only a fortification complex, which you can visit by buying a ticket at the checkout, but also other tempting offers from the Tenant Fort.

Map of Fort Konstantin with basic structures

Map from the official site http://i0.wp.com/forthototel.ru/wp-contective/uploads/2015/10/fort_konstantin_map_228x202.jpg

Yacht Club

Fort Konstantin yacht club is one of the largest yacht clubs in St. Petersburg with a total capacity of up to 150 ships. On the basis of the yacht club, the marine international checkpoint is functioning through the state border of the Russian Federation for yachts and small vessels, floating refueling, slick (descent of boats for water).

Rest zone

- Wooden gazebos for barbecue
- Sand beach
- Sun loungers
- Beach bar.
- hire of sports equipment
- Trampolines for children and adults
Barbecue area
- Tent S - 40 m 2 (up to 30 people)
- Used only in the summer season.
- View of the lighthouse and the main shipvather
- on the site in front of the tent installed a mangon
- There is electricity

Rope park

The first rope park in Kronstadt.
Mounted on artificial supports and is equipped with continuous insurance system. It consists of two tracks for visitors of different ages, a trolley of 100 meters and a playground for the youngest visitors.

Combat fortifications:

The central place occupies the 2-tier Barkin battery, to which it is adjacent: a few powder cellar, an open battery, on which there were two 53 mm guns, the battery "Kolpinskaya" by two 122 mm guns. From this complex, the underground tunnel begins leading to the blond "Swedes" battery.
The complex includes a 2-storey barrack of bricks with arched windows, which adjoins the 2-tier battery with two concrete stairs and three pavilions for indicator devices V.F. Petrushevsky, which were used for quick and accurate measurement from the shore batteries of distances to ships.

Wake Park

Russia's only park with a 2-level pool and unique figures for freestyle. A reversing winch with a length of 130 m and a height of 10 m. For training on land there is a skate ramp and trampoline. The administrative building has comfortable locker rooms, shower with hot water, sauna and cafes.

Sea walks along the Forts of Kronstadt

In the summer season from the berth, Fort Constantine is sent to the legendary ferry "Rieperban" with a tour of the Forts of Kronstadt. The excursion is accompanied by a professional guide story. Duration of excursion: 1 hour.
On weekends, unique flights are performed for Fort "Plague" (Alexander I). Excursion duration: 2 hours. The program includes: visiting the Fort "Plaza", a guide with a guide to the fort and on board the ferry.

Excursions to Fort Konstantin

During the excursion, you will learn about the purpose of the Fort facilities, and their role in the protection of the marine borders of the northern capital. Excursion includes a visit to the underground tunnel of the Sweden Battery and numerous interior of the fortress.
Excursions are held at prior orders, both for individual tourists and group. Duration of the program: 45 minutes.

Hotel, Cafes, Recreation Areas

Fort Konstantin is a historical architectural and cultural complex with a developed tourist infrastructure. A 24-hour floating hotel on 10 comfortable rooms is harvested to the fort. On the 1st floor of the hotel there is a cafe-bar. In the summer season there is a summer bar in Wakepark. For a comfortable and active pastime on the territory of the fort, mangal zones, indoor picnic gazes, and a sandy beach is equipped, a rope park has been built, trampolines are installed, tents for weddings and other solemn events.

Dictionary of fortification terms

• Embrasure (Franz. Embrasure) - window opening in the fortifications, expanding inside the room. Designed for the output of the dulp of the gun, gun.
• Barbet - Playground for Bruzier Strengthening to install guns shooting through brushing.
• Bastion (Ital. Bastionato is a protruding superstructure) - a pentagon ledge in a fortress wall, a shaft, intended for the maintenance of fire along the shaft, the wall of the fortification facility.
• Berm - In marine fortification, as a rule, a stone or concrete longitudinal platform, which prevents the shower of the earthen shaft (Escarp) into the water when shelling the strengthening of the enemy artillery.
• Parapet (it. Brustwehr - chest, breast protection) - longitudinal wall, mound, shaft, preventing guns from front fire enemy.
• Valgang. - The upper part of the fortification for brushing. Designed to install guns.
• Gorge (Franz. Gorge - neck, throat) - the back of the back, including the rendering, in the fortification building.
• Casemate (Franz. CAZEMATE) - a room in the thickness of a fortress structure, without window openings, as a rule, well-protected with thick walls and vaults. Designed to accommodate garrisons and ammunition.
• Catent member barracks - As a rule, a vaulted room to accommodate the garrison of the fortress, but with embrace-shaped window openings, which goes into the back of the strengthening.
• Kurtin (Italian. Curtine - curtain) - a plot of a fortress fence between the flanges of two adjacent bastions or between two towers.
• Lost (Franz. Poterne) - a narrow corridor hidden in the thickness of a fortress wall, a shaft that serves for a secure message inside the fortification buildings during hostilities.
• Rod - Log chopped drawer. Clamp filled with curled stone served for two hundred years the basis of the fortress of the Kronstadt Fortress.
• Draft - Stone or concrete building, covering the entrance to the powder cellar. Designed to protect the border door of the cellar from fragments of broken enemy shells. Pure Russian invention of the late XIX century. Often the draft covered the inputs into fortification buildings with the Gorge.
• Traverse (Franz. Traverser - cross) - transverse walls adjacent to one end to the brown and separating guns (forgive) on separate courtyards. Protect guns from the longitudinal fire of the enemy.
• Fort (Lat. Fortis - strong) - a separate strengthening, as a rule, a long-term nature, made from the main fortress for the range of possible artillery fire of the opponent.
• FAS. (Franz., English Face -Le) - a straight line of a fortress wall, shaft. In the case of sea forts of Kronstadt, the central part of the rectilinear form.
• Flank. (Franz. Flanc) - short wall, shaft plot, massif Fort, adjacent at an angle to the facility.
• Scarp (FRN.USRR - coolness) - the slope of the protective shaft of fortress structures or the Rib, addressed to the enemy.

L.I. Amirkhanov, V.F. Tkachenko Forts of Kronstadt, ed-E 2, "Island", 2006, p. 92.

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59.995113 , 29.701860 Fort "Konstantin" (Double South Battery)

More recently, this fort was problematic to get to this fort. But times are changed, Fort "Konstantin" was redeemed by the son of the director of the "Third Park" holding, the largest non-state carrier of the North-West Russia engaged in commercial bus transports. Now there is a floating hotel on the territory of Fort, and simple curious to "Konstantin" are allowed for a modest MW 150 rubles from one machine.

For fort we went on March 8. This year, the festive day was marked by the wind of the hurricane strength with impudent in the form of rain and wet snow. The rain watered us all the way to fort, but as soon as we arrived at the place, the sediments, as the magic wand, stopped, and through rapidly flying lead clouds even began to break through the sun's rays.

But the wind will not go anywhere, and Forte felt on all sides, he felt with a special force. First of all, we drove up to the lighthouse that at the very end of the fort. And when we frivolously opened open two doors in the car, the wind picked up the paper they needed on the torpedo, and began to circle them and twitch on the fort. We, waving your hands, caught papers, and it was like frames from the film. It is so in dramatic scenes showing heroes who try to catch letters or something else there. Probably from the side it looked comic. Something we could have caught, found something in the stones, but most of the papers flew into the bay. It is good that there was nothing particularly valuable among them.

With "Konstantina" opens a good view of Fort "Alexander" ("Plague).

I really want to get on him someday, he looks like the legendary "bayard".

Compared to other previously visible, Forts can be said that "Konstantin" is lucky. The territory is removed, two corps of three are renovated.

Near the hotel equipped with a helipad.

The hotel is very romantic: live well overlooking Kronstadt, forts and swimming trips.

Near "Konstantin" is a shipproof construction No. 1, located above the tunnel in Kada, so that floating past ships are consistently pleasing to the eye to the visitors of the hotel and guests of Fort.

By the way, to get to the fort, you need to go away right away, as soon as you go out of the tunnel. Then you need to drive two checkpoints, the money for entry is collected on the second.
And Ice on the bay is no longer there, only the coastal shuga, and it is March 8th, amazing.

On "Konstantine" there is a marina, from where you can go with a tour of the southern forts. In the summer, private traders are worked here on motorboys.

The Fort Corps, which is closer to the hotel and the bay, is restored, equipped with steps upstairs and viewing platforms.

Fort plan. You can get inside the premises. We did not get, because they did not know what could be.

That housing, which is closer to the entrance, while abandoned.

Also on "Konstantine" there is a decorative ship on the shore.

There is still a gun and derived anchor seagulls.

"Konstantin" became our fifth fortified by the fort ("gray horse", "" Shants "," Red Gorka "," Fort "). For fort" IO ", we went to the last fall." Ino ", of course, the grand is the thickness of concrete floors The fort strikes the imagination. "Iso" stands in the forest, not far from the Ottomanskoye settlement, where the military unit had previously been based. From the side of the Fort bay, it just looks like a high hill that has shine, you don't know, you won't find it. It's a pity that then we have forgotten the fotik :(
Summary: "Ino" from five visible forts the most impressive, and "Konstantin" is the most well-kept and comfortable. Let's hope that gradually all the forts bring to mind, they deserve it.

Leaving the fort, they drove to Kronstadt to look at the sea cathedral without a blue fence.

They went inside, after the restoration was still not there. Inside the cathedral is as amicious, as well as outside, and the same bright. There was a nullifying vigil, chorus sang, acoustics in the cathedral amazing.
Such a day :)