Fortress Oreshek
Notes in blog, seria «Shlisselburg» from travel across Russia (and world). Collection yet 1 pix
Ticket sales through JetRadar.com service without commissions and markups.
Modern photo Shlisselburg.
City in Leningrad region, conducts the history from the basis of a fortress «Nutlet», the Novgorod prince Yury Danilovichem in 1323. Initially wooden fortress in 1353 has been reconstructed in a stone. Repeatedly passed from hand to hand, has definitively been won from Swedes in 1702 to year Peter I. Swedes named the city of Noteburg, Peter has named Shlisselburg (another variant — Shljusenburg, the demotic name — Shljushin).
During the Great Patriotic War thanks to courage of defenders of a fortress in besieged Leningrad on ice of Ladoga lake the foodstuffs and ammunition were delivered. In memory of events of those years in fortress territory there is a monument defending the Nutlet. The building of prison church and the prison case has been decided not to restore, as memory of bloody fights.
During the Great Patriotic War thanks to courage of defenders of a fortress in besieged Leningrad on ice of Ladoga lake the foodstuffs and ammunition were delivered. In memory of events of those years in fortress territory there is a monument defending the Nutlet. The building of prison church and the prison case has been decided not to restore, as memory of bloody fights.
Share: