Fort Pyotr
Fort Pyotr is a fort in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast. Fort Pyotr is situated nearby to the islet Fort Alexander.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort Alexander and Kabotazhnaya Gavan Range Rear Lighthouse.
Fort Alexander
Islet
Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Alexander, also Fort Alexander I, or Plague Fort is a naval fortress on an artificial island in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. From 1899 to 1917, the fort housed a research laboratory on plague and other bacterial diseases. Fort Alexander is situated 1 km west of Fort Pyotr.
Kabotazhnaya Gavan Range Rear Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kabotazhnaya Gavan Range Rear Lighthouse is situated 1 km southeast of Fort Pyotr.
Kronstadt tide gauge
Photo: Panther, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Kronstadt tide gauge is situated 1½ km east of Fort Pyotr.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kronstadt and Kronshtadskaya Kolonia.
Kronstadt
Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kronstadt is a city of 44,000 people and military seaport on Kotlin Island, off Saint Petersburg, in the Gulf of Finland.
Kronshtadskaya Kolonia
Suburb
Photo: Drbug, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kronshtadskaya Kolonia is a suburb, which is situated 8 km south of Fort Pyotr.
Malaya Izhora
Hamlet
Photo: Александров, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Malaya Izhora is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km southwest of Fort Pyotr.
Fort Pyotr
- Type: Fort
- Also known as: “Fort Petr” and “Peter Fort”
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
59.98944° or 59° 59′ 22″ northLongitude
29.73333° or 29° 44′ eastElevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
9GFFXPQM+Q8GeoNames ID
510280
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Fort Pyotr” goes by many names.
- Russian: “Fort Pëtr Pervyy”
- Russian: “Tsitadel’”
- Russian: “Форт Пётр Первый”
- Russian: “Цитадель”
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