Travel stories and photos

Kronstadt Bypass canal

Bypass canal begins at the Italian pond and ends at the harbor of Kronstadt. Canal and its fence is a historical monument. Canal length is a 3 km.

Italian pond

Cannon – XVIII-XIX century

The tide gauge

Blockade stickleback memorial tablet

Wish Tree

Monument to F.F. Bellingshausen

Ivan Tambasov’s cannon

76mm universal gun 81-K from battleship “October Revolution.”

Building of the 5th commissariat store

Supports of the Officers bridge

Torpedo, mine and anchor near the barracks building on the Makarovskaya street

Submariners square

The views of the canal

Monument to Ivan Aivazovsky

Designed by V.E.Gorevoy. Monument was opened 15.09.2007 – 190 year anniversary of the artist’s birth.

Monument to PK Pakhtusov

Pyotr Kuzmich Pahtusov (1800 – 1835) – russian explorer, member of hydrographic expeditions in the Barents and White Seas, was born in Kronstadt.