Obruchev Fort

Fort Obruchev in Kronstadt began construction in January 1897 according to the design of Engineer-Captain A. A. Shishkin, with the work planned to be completed by 1903. In 1919, an uprising occurred at the fort, during which a sailor detachment executed 55 garrison members, and the commanders, having arrested the communists, received no support and were themselves arrested. In 1925–1927, two 203-mm guns from the armored cruiser "Rurik" were installed here, but in the 1950s the facility was abandoned, stripped for metal, and lost the wooden lining of its casemates. The fort has the status of a cultural heritage site of federal significance, assigned by a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation in 2001.