The Ministry of Defense handed over a plot in Sevastopol to Shoigu’s wards
The Ministry of Defense transfers the site on the northern side of Sevastopol Bay to the city. In the future, it will be transferred under a lease agreement to the use of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS), whose president is Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
This was announced at a meeting of the Sevastopol government. Director of the Department of Property and Land Relations Rustem Zainullin.
“The territory is approximately 290 square meters, adjacent to the land plot leased to the society to support the activities of the Konstantinovskaya Battery museum and exhibition complex.” The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation approved the scheme and divided its land plot,” said Zainullin.
In 2014, the Konstantinovskaya casemate battery itself at the entrance to Sevastopol Bay was transferred to the Russian Geographical Society in the same way. Previously, a military unit was located there.
The Russian Geographical Society invested 780 million rubles in the reconstruction of this monument of fortification architecture of the 2017th century. At the end of XNUMX, the battery was opened to the public. Today, within the walls of the citadel there are two exhibitions: “The Konstantinovskaya Battery: Two Centuries Guarding the Motherland” and “The History of the Russian Geographical Society in Persons, Photographs, Facts.”
The Konstantinovskaya battery (ravelin) is a two-tiered stone casemate battery in the shape of a horseshoe. It is located on the cape of the same name in the northern part of Sevastopol Bay and is one of the main accents of the sea facade of the city. Built in 1840. The total length of the facade is 230 meters, width - 25 meters, height above sea level - about 12 meters. The Konstantinovskaya battery received its baptism of fire on October 5, 1854, during the first bombardment of Sevastopol.
It is from the Konstantinovskaya battery that the traditional midday cannon shot is fired in Sevastopol.
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