Yeni-Kale Fortress
the time allotted for inspection tourist facility 1:00
Getting there
- From the bus station by bus number 1, we need to get to the stop Yeni-Kale
- Take the exit from Kerch on Gorky Street, then follow the street Voykova, then - on the street Gen. Kulakov. At the railway station turn right onto Stroygorodok Yenikalsky road. Then follow the street until Sipiagin Yeni-Kale fortress. Distance -10 miles.
Yeni-Kale fortress (in Turkish "New Castle") is located in the vicinity of Kerch, on the contrary the narrowest place of the Kerch Strait. The fortress was built at the beginning of the XVIII century on the site of an earlier building Kilisedzhik (in Turkish - "The church"), which was bombed and Don Zaporozhye Cossacks in 1631.
The fortress was built to close to Russia out of the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea, where Turkey has been a full-fledged mistress. Yeni-Kale fortress lost its military importance during the Russian-Turkish war. In 1771, a fortress captured Russian troops under Prince Vladimir M. Dolgorukov.
Yeni-Kale is a pretty impressive three-tier structure. By the field strength was reinforced earth wall and moat, from the coast of the battery has been paved ground on stilts, on which lay the road.
In the fortress there were powerful weapons that held at gunpoint Strait.
Yeni-Kale Garrison was designed for 2000 soldiers. For them, inside the fort were built mosque and a bathhouse.
Yeni-Kale fortress village Sipyagin
