Northern Fortress

The remarkable fortresses of Northwest Russia and Finland with their detailed descriptions, history reviews, maps, plans and photographic images

Russian

18.10 - photos of Raseborg, Kirillovsky Monastery and Gatchina has been renewed
12.10 - Kymenlinna fortress has been added
16.09 - few pics of St.Peters Church in Malye Kolpany was added to KrUR
31.08 - Coastal Artillery center of Suomenlinna was renewed slightly
25.08 - Guns of Bolax island has been added to Coastal Artillery
25.06 - Hamina (Fredriksgam) fortress was added
15.05 - Northern Fort #4 has been revised drammatically
13.05 - Fort #5 has been added to the Nort forts of Kronstadt
29.04 - Lappeenranta (Villmanstrand) fortress has been added
25.03 - fresh news about Bip Castle
20.03 - MU-2 152 mm guns emplacements was added to the Coastal Artillery
10.03 - Puumala was added to the Coastal Artillery
15.02 - few pics of Reserve command post was added to fort Ino
28.01 - new pics to Fort Ino were added
18.01 - new pics to Beloostrov (KaUR) were added
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Northern Fortress at Google.maps
Old navygation map

Fort Krasnaya Gorka (Red Hill)

KaUR (Karelian Fortified Area)

KrUR (Krasnogvardeisk Fortified Area)

Finland

Harparskog Line

Also re-enactment reports and some links to other my photos...

Author will be glad to receive your helpful additions and friendly critique (but will develop this site in his own way). If you wish to add any fortification link to this site, write me please (but link must be releted to the fortresses of this site).

Alex Goss www.Goss.ru

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