Ust-Kamenogorsk Fortress (until 1804 - Ust-Kamennaya Fortress) - a watchtower of the Irtysh line . It is located in Ust-Kamenogorsk (now - the east of Kazakhstan ).
| Fortress | |
| Ust-Kamenogorsk fortress | |
|---|---|
| A country | Russian Empire (now Kazakhstan ) |
| Location | |
| Builder | engineer Letrange |
| First mention | 1720 |
| Build Date | 1720 year |
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History
In 1719, Peter I sent another detachment to find the gold of Yarkand . At the head of the new expedition was Major Ivan Mikhailovich Likharev.
On August 20, 1720, at the mouth of the Ulba River, Likharev ordered the laying of defensive structures.
So the Russian Empire appeared Ust-Kamennaya fortress , the extreme southern tip of the Irtysh fortified line . I. M. Likharev left a garrison of 363 people and appointed Lieutenant Colonel Stupin, commandant of the new fortress, who headed the construction of the fortress, led by engineer Letrange. The first Ust-Kamenogorsk residents were soldiers and officers of the Kolyvanovsky Dragoon Regiment.
A quadrangular wooden fortress occupied an area of about a hectare, was surrounded by a palisade and surrounded by high ramparts . On the territory of the fortress were barracks for soldiers, a military hospital , apartments of military leaders , various storerooms and a department of a hard-labor prison.
The fortress survived more than one major fire. After one of them in 1766, a large stone fortress was rebuilt, surrounded by a stone rampart and moats.
Since 1745, the Ust-Kamenogorsk fortress was part of the Siberian province .
In 1804, due to the increase in the number of inhabitants and the construction of houses near the fortress, the Ust-Kamennaya fortress was renamed to the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk [1] .
November 27, 1879 the fortress was removed from the military balance and transferred to the city.
After the revolution of 1917, the fortress was called "Siberian Shlisselburg " [2] .
The remains of the ramparts have been preserved in Ust-Kamenogorsk until now. Directly behind the rampart is a pre-trial detention center, on the other side of the rampart is the St. Andrew Cathedral.
In popular culture
The Ust-Kamenogorsk fortress is described in the adventure novel by Nikolai Ivanovich Anov, “The Missing Brother” (1941). The actions of several chapters of the novel take place in the Ust-Kamenogorsk fortress.
Notes
- ↑ History of Ust-Kamenogorsk in dates (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment August 5, 2010. Archived July 13, 2011.
- ↑ Express K is a daily socio-political republican newspaper (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 13, 2012. Archived December 3, 2012.
Literature
- Knyazhetskaya E. A. When Ust-Kamenogorsk was founded // News of VGO. 1969. No. 1.