Kodak fortress was a fort built in 1635 by the order of Władysław IV Vasa, ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth's Sejm, on the Dnieper river near what would become the town of Stari Kodaky. In 1711, according to the Treaty of the Pruth the fortress was destroyed by the Russians.
Kodak fortress
Old fortifications at the site of Kodak Fortress
A memorial on the site of Kodak Fortress in honor of the capture of Kodak Fortress by Zaporozhian Cossacks under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. The memorial was erected on the remains of fortifications on the initiative of historian Dmytro Yavornytsky in 1910. The monument states that the Polish garrison capitulated on 24 April 1648, when in reality it did so on 1 October 1648.
Old cemetery in the village of Stari Kodaky, near the site of Kodak Fortress. The River Dnieper is in the background.
Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnipro River, after which its name is derived. Dnipro is the administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. Dnipro has a population of 968,502.
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A part of the Cuman statue collection of the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro