Fort Kronshlot

Fort Kronshlot is a fort in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast. Fort Kronshlot is situated nearby to Kabotazhnaya Gavan Range Rear Lighthouse, as well as near the suburb Kronshtadskaya Kolonia.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kabotazhnaya Gavan Range Rear Lighthouse and Kronstadt tide gauge.

Kabotazhnaya Gavan Range Rear Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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Kabotazhnaya Gavan Range Rear Lighthouse is situated 510 metres north of Fort Kronshlot.

Kronstadt tide gauge

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Kronstadt tide gauge is situated 1½ km northeast of Fort Kronshlot.

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 2 km northwest of Fort Kronshlot.

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

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Kronshtadskaya Kolonia is a suburb, which is situated 7 km south of Fort Kronshlot.

Lomonosov

Town

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Lomonosov is a municipal town in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 40 kilometers west of Saint Petersburg proper. Lomonosov is situated 8 km south of Fort Kronshlot.

Fort Kronshlot

Type: Fort
Also known as: “Fort Kronstadt”, “Fort Nikolai”, “Fort Nikolay”, “Kronslot fort”, “Nikolayevsk Battery”, and “Nikolayevskaya Batereya”
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude

59.97959° or 59° 58′ 47″ north

Longitude

29.74665° or 29° 44′ 48″ east

Elevation

10 metres (33 feet)

Open location code

9GFFXPHW+RM

GeoNames ID

540772

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In Other Languages

“Fort Kronshlot” goes by many names.

Russian: “Форт Кроншлот”

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