Kiev Fortress

Kiev Fortress
Київська фортеця

Location	24a Hospitalna Street Kiev Ukraine
Public transit access	Klovska station, Palats Sportu station ( Syretsko-Pecherska Line); trolleybus

The Kiev Fortress (Ukrainian: Київська фортеця; Kyivs'ka fortetsia; Russian: Киевская крепость; Kievskaya krepost' ) 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

Row of artillery guns at Hospital fortifications

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]

Kiev fortress

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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")

Coordinates: 50°26′4″N 30°31′40″E / 50.43444°N 30.52778°E / 50.43444; 30.52778

National landmarks of cultural heritage in Kiev
History	Mikhail Bulgakov House of Residence Darnytsia concentration camp Baikove Cemetery Manor House Complex Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology Kiev Theological Seminary Konstantin Ushinsky Grave Taras Shevchenko House of Residence Vyshhorod Street Presidium Building National Academy of Sciences Building of Pedagogic Museum Building Complex Taras Shevchenko National University Nikolai Vatutin Grave Lukianivske Cemetery Monitor Zhelezniakov Vincent Chvojka House of Residence Grave of Cossack Officers Iskra and Kochubei Building Complex Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Manor House of the Murashko Family of Artists Babi Yar Column of the Magdeburg Rights Mykhailo Hrushevsky House of Residence Askoldova Mohyla Building Complex Kiev Polytechnic Institute Building Complex Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studios Mykola Lysenko House of Residence Lesya Ukrainka House of Residence Memorial Complex Park "Vichnoyi Slavy" Memorial of Militsiya Men Building of the First Private Museum Bohdan and Varvara Khanenkos Kiev Museum of Russian Arts Building Taras Shevchenko House of Residence Shevchenko Lane Bykivnia
Archaeology	Bourgogne Theatre Vydubychi City of Volodymyr Foundation and Wall Remnants Church Foundation of Fedoriv Monastery St.George Church Foundations Palace Foundation Irene Street St.Irina Church Foundations Kytayiv Settlement City of Yaroslav Zvirynets Caves Lach Gates Foundations Old Ruthenian Settlement Nyvky Church Foundations Berestove City of Izyaslav Svyatopolk Kyrylivska Archaeological Site Theotokos Church Foundations Klov Monastery Settlement at Shchekavytsia Foundations of Stone Church Yurkiv Street Fine court of Prince Vsevolod Klov Yurkovytsia Settlement and Burial Uhorske
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Urban Planning	Andriyivskyy Descent Zamkova Hora Kiev Fortress Hospital Fortifications Citadel with Bastions Lysohirsky Fort Zvirynets Fortifications Vasylkiv Fortifications
Architecture	St.Alexander Kosciol Residential House Sahaidachny Street

Museums in Kiev, Ukraine
Art museums and galleries	Ivan Honchar Museum Museum of Russian Art in Kiev Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine Museum of Ukrainian folk art Museum of Western and Oriental Art National Art Museum of Ukraine PinchukArtCentre
History	Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period Museum of Ukrainian Revolution (1917-1921) Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War Museum of Soviet Occupation National Museum of the History of Ukraine National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943" Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum
Religion	Kiev Pechersk Lavra St Andrew's Church St Sophia Cathedral St Cyril Church St Nicholas Cathedral
Transportation	Kiev Museum of Electric Transportation Kiev Railway Museum Ukraine State Aviation Museum Kiev Subway Museum
Culture	Golden Gate Kiev Fortress Mamayeva Sloboda Mikhail Bulgakov Museum Museum of Cultural Heritage in Kiev One Street Museum Pyrohiv Savka House State Museum of Toys (Kiev)
Infrastructure	Pedagogical Museum Kiev Fire Service Museum Kiev Pharmacy Museum Kiev Recycling Museum Kiev Sewer Museum Kiev Toilet History Museum Kiev Water Museum National museum of health care in Kiev

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