Gun's emplacements of the Central battery, Fort Shanz (Kronstadt: Kotlin isl.)

Gun's emplacements of the Central battery

Gun's emplacements of the Central battery

There are 12 open artillery emplacements with high concrete parapet on top of the rampart. The design of the batteries is the same type of batteries forts A and B (Obruchev and Totleben forts). All the corners of the constructions are rounded to reduce the number of fragment from the blast waves.

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