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Kiev Fortress
Київська фортеця


Location	24a Hospitalna Street Kiev Ukraine
Public transit access	Klovska station, Palats Sportu station (Template:KIEVMETRO-line3); trolleybus

The Kiev Fortress (Template:Lang-ua; Template:Lang-ru) is a complex of Russian fortifications in Kiev, Ukraine built over the span of 17-19th centuries, soon after the 1654 Council in Pereyaslav.

Kiev Fortress once belonged to the extensive system of western Russian fortresses that existed in the Russian Empire. The Kiev Fortress complex features many separate fortifications in Pechersk, Old Kiev, Podil, and Zvirynets located in various city districts of Kiev. Currently most of the remaining structures turned into a historic reserve. The main fortification associated with the Kiev Fortress (where located the Historic and Architectural Museum) is the Hospital fortification.

Overview

Composition

Old Kiev and Old Pechersk fortresses (1655-1803)
- Kiev Arsenal
New Pechersk Fortress (1831-?)
- Citadel (Askold's Grave, 1706-)
- Hosptital fortifications (Cherepanova Hora, 1836-)
- Vasylkiv fortifications (1831-)
- separately built fortifications: 3 towers, 3 barracks, other fortifications
Zvirynets fortifications (Vydubychi, 1810-1918)
Lysohirsky Fort (Lysa Hora, 1874-?)

Description

Having lost their military importance in the 20th century, the buildings continued to be used as barracks, storage and incarceration facilities. Some of them played independent historical roles. The Kosyi Caponier ("Skew Caponier") became a prison for the political inmates in the 1900s–1920s and was later turned into a Soviet museum. Now it is the center of the modern museum. A small fortress built in 1872 on the legendary Lysa Hora ("Bald Mountain") in 1906 became a place of executions for convicted political inmates. It is now a landscape reserve and part of the museum complex.

Notable individuals who served at the fortress

Constantine Ypsilantis - served as a commandant of the Pechersk Fortress between 1807 and 1816.

Kiev Fortress Museum

Within the Kiev Fortress is the Kyiv Fortress Museum,or Kyivska Fortetsya. It is semi-underground. The museum is housed in a 19th-century building,which was formerly a wing of the fortress.^[1]

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Gallery

Main gate to the Hospital fort
View from the Main gate of the Hospital fort
Cannons on the wall of the Hospital fort
The Main gate and the wall to the Hospital fort (view from the East)
The Main gate and the wall to the Hospital fort (view from the West)
Skew Caponier

References

^ "Kiev Fortress Museum - Unique Semi-Underground Museum". NewMedia Holdings, Inc. Retrieved 23 January 2013.

External links

Official website (National Historic and Architectural Museum "Kiev Fortress")

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