Styrsudden ( Swedes Styrsudde , Fin. Seivästön majakka ) is a functioning lighthouse on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland , at Cape Stirsudden ( Swedes Styrsunds udde ) in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region , near the village of Ozerki .
| Stirsudden | |
|---|---|
| Swede. Styrsudde , Fin. Seivästön majakka | |
 The lighthouse on the stamp of 1983. | |
| A country | |
| Sea | Baltic Sea |
| Cape | Stirsudden |
| Construction date | 1872 |
| Beacon height | 28 |
| NUM height | 47 |
| Distance | 21 m |
| Acting | Yes |
History
It was built in 1872 by order of the Fleet Admiral Grand Duke Konstantin at Seyvyastovsky cape. Before his appearance, many ships sank near Seyvasto , leading at that time only along sea marks, since there are many shallows in this area near the coast, and sailing here was dangerous.
Estonian workers built a lighthouse; brick was brought from Tallinn .
Otto Wilhelm von Lude was appointed head of the lighthouse. After his death, his son-in-law, Estonian Peter Maryak, inherited the position. Since 1914 , Trofimov became the head of the lighthouse, and in 1918 his place was taken by the sea captain Emil Virkki, who served on the lighthouse until the outbreak of the Winter War .
In 1919 , an English warship was blown up by a mine near a lighthouse. They managed to save the team, but 9 sailors were recovered from the water already dead. They were buried near the lighthouse. The wife of the caretaker Lydia Virkki carefully looked after the graves until the winter of 1939 .
During World War II, the lighthouse was destroyed.
V.I. Lenin
In June 1907 , near the lighthouse, at the dacha of Professor N. M. Knipovich , V. Lenin lived with his wife and mother-in-law.
In 1907, after the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP, Lenin, as N.K. Krupskaya recalls, was tired to the extreme, was nervous, did not eat. At this time, L. M. Knipovich , known under the party nickname "Uncle", invited him to come to Stirsudden. Since police surveillance of the Vaza cottage in Kuokkala , where Lenin lived before leaving for London, intensified, Lenin moved for a month to the Lighthouse of the Revolutionaries, as Knipovich’s close friends called Stirsudden.
Lenin and Krupskaya spent most of their vacation by the sea or on walks on old bicycles, which, as N.K. Krupskaya recalls, had to be constantly repaired.
Sometimes Lenin went to listen to music in a neighboring cottage, where D. I. Leshchenko lived at that time. A relative of the Knipovichi, Ksenia Ivanovna, had a good voice, and Vladimir Ilyich listened with pleasure to her singing.