Vladivostok Fortress - Coastal Battery No. XIII

On Russky Island on the Zhitkov Peninsula, next to the Primorsky Aquarium, there is a coastal battery No. XIII (No. 373) - part of the powerful fortification of Vladivostok fortress. The battery was built in 1911–1913 according to the project of the military engineer F. D. Shabanov, it included 4 10-inch guns, 30 casemates, an under-gallery gallery and a barracks.


General types of batteries.

Fire control cabin


Gun heel




If not for such a fog, that would have gorgeous views of the Pacific Ocean.


I did not have a flashlight with me, but without it there is nothing to do inside. Well, for the sake of the photo, you need an external flash, which I didn’t intentionally carry across the country.


In Soviet times, a battery of the Vladivostok coastal defense sector No. 922 was placed at its position (designed for four 152-mm Kane guns, later replaced with four 130-mm B-13 guns - these are exactly the guns in the photo).