<![CDATA[News of the site Northern Fortress]]> ru https://www.nortfort.ru/ News of the site Northern Fortress https://www.nortfort.ru/img/icon.gif https://www.nortfort.ru/ <![CDATA[The Lokki Communications Centre in Mikkele]]> The Lokki Communications Centre has been posted in Mikkele
Right in the center of the city of Mikkele, in a rock massif, there is a vast dungeon, which during the Second World War housed the Communications Center of the Main Headquarters of the Finnish Army.

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Wed, 06 May 2026 22:33:35 +0300
<![CDATA[TM-3-12 transporter with a 12-inch gun]]> Steam Locomotive Museum in St. Petersburg have been added
New photos from the Steam Locomotive Museum in St. Petersburg have been added

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Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:39:53 +0300
<![CDATA[Mikkeli - history and Mannerheim's train car at the station ]]> Mikkeli and photo of the Mannerheim car at the city station
The city of Mikkeli, which served as the location of the Mannerheim Headquarters and the headquarters of the Finnish Army during World War II. Photo of Marshal Mannerheim's rail-way car.

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Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:09:01 +0300
<![CDATA[Fort No.4 "Zverev"]]> Fort No.4 "Zverev" of Kronstadt Fortress
This fort is named after one of the builders of the Kronstadt fortress, engineer-colonel K. Zverev. The fort is interesting for its brick casements, melted as a result of a fire in the 1970s.

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Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:07:00 +0300
<![CDATA[Fort No. 5 northern of the Kronstadt fortress]]> Fort No.5 northern of Kronstadt Fortress updated
Fort No.5 of the northern part of the Kronstadt fortress. A sea fort on artifical foundations, erected 'with great haste' for the defense of the capital during the Eastern (Crimean) War on the site of a temporary battery of the 1810s.

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Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:32:27 +0300
<![CDATA[Powder magazine of the Naval Department]]> Powder magazine of the Naval Department has been posted to the Kronstadt Fortress
A large powder magazine of the Naval Department on an artificial island just 800 meters away from the city beach of Kronstadt. Built in the 1860s, it is now abandoned, and it is gradually collapsing under the inexorable onslaught of the sea and bad weather. In summer, it is accessible by boat, cutter or inflatable mattress just from the city beach, in winter - on the ice by foot…

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Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:46:53 +0300