Unknown Krondstadt

A tour of the fortress city of Kronstadt and the forts will be one of the most memorable episodes of your trip to St. Petersburg and its environs.
We offer you a tour "Unknown Kronstadt". Perhaps you have been to Kronstadt many times and it seems that nothing new to learn. But it's a deceptive impression. Outside the traditional excursion routes there are interesting details that significantly enrich the idea of the city. As a person connected with Kronstadt and a resident of this city, I am interested to show the city from the other side, to enrich your knowledge and ideas about it.

Kronstadt is famous for its maritime past, forts, inventions, outstanding people and events. Here was a real story - from here went ships to distant shores and made epochal geographical discoveries, tested the latest weapons and introduced technical innovations. But what is left of it now, where are the traces of that legacy? During the tour of Kronstadt we will answer these questions.

I have been thinking about this tour for a long time and now it is time to present its program.

So, during the tour of Kronstadt you will see beautiful monuments and sights of the classic tour of Kronstadt. You can read more about him here. But in addition, you can visit and get acquainted with interesting and completely unique objects.

You will learn about the famous Kronstadt mutiny of 1921, about the admiral estates ("Sea village"; the place of the estate of Admiral Lazarev, etc.), the Kronstadt fortress railway, the completely abandoned Summer Garden and its monuments, the drainage system of the Petrovsky dock, which had no analogues in the world and still amazes with its scale.

These are not the only points of the route. The newly opened non-state Maritime Museum has a rich exposition dedicated to the formation and development of diving and submarine fleet in Russia. The memorial office of A.S. Popov, which is now in the most deplorable state, cannot leave indifferent. In addition, you can visit the apartment of John of Kronstadt and the forts “Grand Duke Constantine”, “Emperor Alexander 1”, “Count Milyutin”, “Shanz”, “1st Northern”.

Route options may vary depending on the time of year and prior agreement.

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