Kodakskaya fortress .

Kodakskaya fortress is a Polish fortress and is situated on the right bank of the Dnieper River a mile from the village of Old Dnepropetrovsk Kaidak . The name of the fortress in Turkic language means a settlement on the hill.

 

Kodakskaya fortress was built in July 1635 , construction work in the castle led a French engineer, de Beauplan . Its purpose was to overlap the Black Sea and the obstruction of villagers fled to Zaporozhye. His contemporaries gave the fortress known informally as the key to Zaporozhye .

 

garrison consisted of 200 German mercenaries, dragoons, commanded by that officer , Jean Marion . In August 1635 , under the command of Ataman Sulima , Cossacks attacked the fortress Kodakskuyu and destroyed it by executing the commandant and killing all the dragoons except for 15 mercenaries who were at this point in intelligence.

 

 

In 1639, German engineer Friedrich Getkant restores strength and increases its area is nearly three times . On the territory of the fortress built Catholic churches, monasteries and Orthodox Church , the size of the garrison increased to 600. Firepower Kodakskoy strength is enhanced by the artillery and guard towers.

 

In September 1648 , at the capture of the fortress sent at once three Cossack regiments under the command of J. Vovchenko, M. Nesterenko and AP Shumeyko. October 1 Kodakskaya fortress surrenders without a fight , gun shot fortress and the fortress itself loses its value until 1654.

 

At the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, Kodakskaya fortress guard post is against the Cossacks the Zaporozhian Sich , in 1711, it is destroyed , and from 1734 to 1775 she was a Cossack settlement.In 1910 at the site of a former fortress of commemorative sets , and in 1940, Kodak created in the granite quarry , which destroyed almost the entire fortress . Have survived only a few ruins of Kodak and earthworks in the north.

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