🏛 Russian Gate

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The only surviving gate of the 18th-century Turkish fortress, where old Anapa begins.

The gate is all that remains of the Ottoman fortress of Anapa, built in 1783.
The fortress had seven bastions and three gates; only the eastern one survives.
Walls 3.2 km long and 8 m high ran from the gate to the sea, along the high bank to the lighthouse and back along Krepostnaya Street.
Russian troops took the fortress on 12 June 1828, and in 1829 Anapa finally passed to Russia.
The gate was named Russian for the 25th anniversary of the capture of Anapa; the slab above the opening reads “Russian Gate 1854”.
The gate was restored in 1995–1996; inside is a stele in memory of the Russian soldiers who fell at the fortress walls in 1788–1828.

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