Forts in Russia

Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. It has a population of

Vyborg (; , ; , ; , ) is a town and the administrative center of Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of Vyborg Bay, northwest of St. Petersburg, east of the Finnish capital Helsinki, and south of Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland. The most recent census population of Vyborg is

Shlisselburg (, ; ; ; ), formerly Oreshek (Орешек) (1323–1611) and Petrokrepost (Петрокрепость) (1944–1992), is a town in Kirovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg. Population:

original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia

Vysotsk (; ; ) is a coastal town and a seaport in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, on the eastern shore of the Vyborg Bay, southwest of Vyborg and northwest of St. Petersburg. It hosts a base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and, since 2004, an oil terminal. Population: In terms of population, it remains one of the smallest towns in Russia.

thumb|Sibier, the region and the city, can be seen on this map by Gerhard Mercator (published 1595), positioned on a left tributary of the [[Ob River. Mercator places Sibir correctly at about 58° northern latitude, but somewhat too much to the west.]]

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thumb|200px|Hungarian Prehistory|Migration of Hungarians thumb|200px|Turkic Tamgas on some of the bricks from Sarkel

fortress in Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Koporye (; Finnish: Kaprio; ) is a historic village (selo) in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located about west of St. Petersburg and south of the Koporye Bay of the Baltic Sea. Its population in 2017 was 1,603.

fortress and museum in Sudak, Crimea

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medieval fortress in Kingisepp, Russia

Russian fortification line

kremlin of the city of Alexandrov in Russia

Fort in Zaraysk, Moscow Oblast, Russia

coastal artillery fortress in Russia

fortification in Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia

thumb|255x255px|Fortifications of the Khumarin settlement by Bidjiev H. H.Khumarinskoye gorodishche (Russian: Хумаринское городище) or Khumar is a ruined medieval fortress on the top of Mount Kalezh above the Kuban Gorge in the Greater Caucasus, near Khumara village, Karachaevsky district, Karachay–Cherkessia, Russia.

19th-century fortress in Crimea

medieval fortified settlement

human settlement in Penzensky District, Penza Oblast, Russia

prehistoric fortified settlement in Western Siberia

Vladivostok Fortress Museum

For the Ukrainian military facility, see Lyubsha (air base). thumb|400px|right|Volhov, Lyubsha and Ladozhka rivers (map on right) Lake Ladoga (on the left). Lyubsha () is an archaeological site situated on the right bank of the Volkhov, about 1,500 metres downstream from Staraya Ladoga. As was determined by the 1997 excavations, Lyubsha is the site of one of the oldest Slavic fort in Russia, established in the first half of the 8th century, thus predating Ladoga. Its layout and dimensions closely resemble the contemporaneous hill forts of Great Moravia.

fort near Kronstadt

historical citadel and museum in Kaliningrad, Russia

historic fortress in Southwestern Russia

thumb|250px|Annenkrone (left), Vyborg Castle (middle) and the town of Vyborg (right) Annenkrone (''St Anne's Crown, , tr. Annenskiye ukrepleniya'', ) is an early 18th century fortification in Vyborg, Russia. It is located outside the town in the island of Tverdysh.

thumb|Excavations at Samosdelskoe settlement in 2020. Samosdelka () is a fishing village in the Astrakhan Oblast of southern Russia, approximately 40 km south-southwest of the city of Astrakhan, in the Volga River delta area of the Caspian Depression marshlands. In September 2008, Russian archaeologists excavating in Samosdelka announced their discovery of what they claimed were the remains of Atil, the capital of the medieval Khazar kingdom. The claim was considered sensational and, owing to the absence of archaeological evidence, did not meet with widespread acceptance. A 2020 assessment by

former Russian Empire fortress

German military bunker

disused Russian 18th-Century naval fort

fortress in Kronstadt, Russia