Kronstadt
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Kronstadt is a Russian port city in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, located on Kotlin Island, 30 km west of Saint Petersburg, near the head of the Gulf of Finland. It i
The Naval Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Kronstadt
Monument to Peter the Great, the city's founder
The Cathedral of St. Andrew (1817–1932), patron saint of the Russian Navy, destroyed by the Soviet regime in 1932.
Soviet battleship Marat at the Spithead Fleet Review 1937
Kronstadt rebellion
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The Kronstadt rebellion was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port city of Kronstadt. Located on Kotlin Island in the
Kronstadt
…massive system of sea and land fortifications, served as the shield of the former Russian capital. In March 1921, the island city was the site of the Kronstadt rebellion. The historic centre of the city and its fortifications are part of the World Heritage Site that is Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments…
Loyalist Red Army soldiers on the frozen Gulf of Finland attacking the island fortress of Kronstadt
Prior to 1917, Kronstadt sailors revolted in 1905 (depicted) and 1906
The crew of the Petropavlovsk during the March 1917 Baltic Fleet riot of March 1917
The resolution taken by the Kronstadt seamen, containing demands such as the election of free soviets and freedom of speech and press