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Örö Fortress (Peter the Great's Naval Fortress)
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Örö Fortress (Peter the Great's Naval Fortress)
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Örö Fortress (Peter the Great's Naval Fortress)

Форт Эрё (Örö) морской крепости Императора Петра Великого
FinlandКемиёнсаари (остров Эрё)1915–1917Military sites
A coastal fort on the island of Örö in the Archipelago Sea, built by Russia from 1915 as part of Peter the Great's Naval Fortress; Finland was then part of the Russian Empire. Cobbled roads, a narrow-gauge railway, barracks, service buildings and piers were built on the island; its main armament was a battery of four 305 mm guns from the Obukhov Works. After 1917 the fort was used by Finnish coastal artillery. About twenty of the original timber buildings survive.
Береговой форт на острове Эрё в Архипелаговом море, строившийся Россией с 1915 года как часть морской крепости Императора Петра Великого; Финляндия тогда входила в состав Российской империи. На острове были проложены мощёные булыжником дороги и узкоколейная железная дорога, построены казармы, хозяйственные здания и причалы; главным вооружением была батарея из четырёх 305-мм орудий Обуховского завода. После 1917 года форт использовался береговой артиллерией Финляндии. Сохранилось около двадцати первоначальных деревянных построек.

Property abroad

EraRussian Empire
FunctionFort, settlement
Present ownerState of Finland (Metsähallitus)
Acquisitionbuilt, 1915
StatusSold, transferred or lost
As of2013-11
After 1917 the fort passed to Finland; according to a Yle report of November 2013, the Defence Forces were to give up the island from the beginning of 2015, when it would become part of the Archipelago National Park managed by Metsähallitus.

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