Old Aleksandrovsk
Modern streets of the old city, built in the late nineteenth and early ...
The structure of the Alexander Fortress was distinguished by a number of military-engineering innovations: the main fence consisted of caponiers or polygonal fronts arranged in a regular quadrangle, with earthen structures in the middle separated from the main moat - thus forming separate bastions and citadels. Colonel Yakiv Bibikov supervised the engineering and construction works on the erected fortresses. As of 1780, there were barracks battalions, a guardhouse, a prison, workshops, Zeichhouses and grocery stores, a pharmacy, an infirmary (in St. Matthew's Bastion), a cannon depot, powder cellars, and quarters for medical personnel and merchants. Later, a battalion school and buildings for the command staff were built. The church was located in one of the stone buildings of the medical quarter.
The structure of the Alexander Fortress was distinguished by a number of military-engineering innovations: the main fence consisted of caponiers or polygonal fronts arranged in a regular quadrangle, with earthen structures in the middle separated from the main moat - thus forming separate bastions and citadels. Colonel Yakiv Bibikov supervised the engineering and construction works on the erected fortresses. As of 1780, there were barracks battalions, a guardhouse, a prison, workshops, Zeichhouses and grocery stores, a pharmacy, an infirmary (in St. Matthew's Bastion), a cannon depot, powder cellars, and quarters for medical personnel and merchants. Later, a battalion school and buildings for the command staff were built. The church was located in one of the stone buildings of the medical quarter.
The beginning of the Alexander Fortress dates back to August 15, 1770, when on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin, military and workers' teams under the command of Colonel Willem von Fredesdorf arrived in Mokra Moskovka. In the spring of 1771, due to heavy flooding, a large part of the fortifications was flooded, which led to the transfer of the fortress to its present location - closer to the water and transport resources of the Dnieper. The fortress lost its military-administrative significance in 1800, when the garrison regiment formed under it was abolished.
The beginning of the Alexander Fortress dates back to August 15, 1770, when on the day of the Assumption of the Virgin, military and workers' teams under the command of Colonel Willem von Fredesdorf arrived in Mokra Moskovka. In the spring of 1771, due to heavy flooding, a large part of the fortifications was flooded, which led to the transfer of the fortress to its present location - closer to the water and transport resources of the Dnieper. The fortress lost its military-administrative significance in 1800, when the garrison regiment formed under it was abolished.