Kodak fortress
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Kodak fortress (Polish: Kudak; Ukrainian: Кодак) was a fort built in 1635 by the Poles over the Dnieper River, near what was to become the town of Stari Kodaky (by modern day: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). It was constructed to control Cossacks of Zaporizhian Sich and prevent Ukrainian peasants from joining forces with the Cossacks.
The fortress was captured by surprise shortly after construction was completed in August of 1635 by the Cossack forces of Ivan Sulima. All 200 men of the fortress were killed and the fortress was demolished.
In 1639, it was rebuilt by the Poles and doubled in size. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648, it was surrendered to the Cossacks on October 1, 1648, after a 7-month siege commanded by Krzysztof Lada-Grodzicki.
After the Treaty of Pereyaslav in 1654, Kodak fortress was manned by the Cossacks. It was later razed by Russia after Peter the Great according to the terms of the Treaty of the Pruth with the Ottoman Empire in 1711.
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