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Kronstadt Fortress
Кронштадтская крепость
Defensive wall of the Kronstadt Fortress
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59°59′37″N 29°47′20″E / 59.99361°N 29.78889°E / 59.99361; 29.78889
LocationRussia, Kronstadt City, Vosstaniya Street, Zosimov Street, Leningradskaya Street, Manuilsky Street
DesignerPeter I (Founder)
TypeMonument of history and architecture. Citadel

Object of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation of Federal Significance.
Registration No. 781721018710006 (Unified State Register of Cultural Heritage Objects).
Object No. 7810260000 (Wikigid Database)

World Heritage Site
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. Defensive Installations of the Fortress of Kronstadt
No. 540–003 in the list of World Heritage Sites
Criteria: I, II, IV, VI
Region: Europe and North America
Inclusion: 1990 (14th Session)
Beginning date1723, 1825–1839 (Construction)

The Kronstadt Fortress is an architectural and historical monument of the 18th–19th centuries in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Only the Northern Wall of the fortress, located in the center of Kronstadt along Vosstaniya Street, which was built in the 19th century along the already existing, but not long before, rebuilt fortress, has survived in good condition.

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