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      Baltiysk: the lighthouse, the pier and the Fleet Museum

      ⏱ 8 h🚶 4.5 km + 🚆🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Russia’s westernmost town: a suburban train along the lagoon, Elizabeth on horseback on the North Pier, the 1816 lighthouse, the Baltic Fleet Museum and lunch by the station.

      🏛 History and architecture🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Kaliningrad South Station
      ул. Железнодорожная, 29
      Suburban trains to Baltiysk leave South Station only twice a day — don’t miss the morning one.
      🚆 by suburban train to Monument to Empress Elizabeth on the North Pier
      suburban train from South Station to Baltiysk: 08:10 → 09:17 or 13:05 → 14:13; also buses from the bus station every 30 minutes, ≈1 h 30 min
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        🏛 Monument to Empress Elizabeth on the North Pier
        Балтийск, Морской бульвар, Северный мол
        An equestrian statue of the empress on the North Pier, looking out over the strait and the Vistula Spit.
        From Baltiysk station it’s 25 minutes on foot along Morskoy Boulevard to the North Pier. It’s windy on the pier — bring a hat.
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        • The equestrian monument to Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was unveiled in 2004; the sculptor was Georgy Frangulyan.
        • The empress is shown in the uniform of a colonel of the Preobrazhensky Regiment; the monument is 14 metres high overall.
        • The monument stands on the North Pier, in the centre of the Elizabeth Fort historical and cultural complex.
        • During the Seven Years’ War, from 1758, Pillau was occupied by Elizabeth’s Russian troops.
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        🏛 Baltiysk Lighthouse
        Балтийск, Кронштадтская ул.
        A red-and-white stone tower of the 1810s — Russia’s westernmost lighthouse, at the entrance to the sea canal.
        Along the canal to the lighthouse — we look from outside.
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        Baltiysk Lighthouse
        © Alexander Grebenkov · CC BY 3.0
        Baltiysk Lighthouse
        © Alfural · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • It is Russia’s westernmost lighthouse: the stone tower was built in 1813–1816.
        • The design is attributed to Karl Schinkel or to the hydraulic engineer Schultz.
        • The tower is about 33 metres high, and its light can be seen 16 nautical miles away.
        • During post-war restoration, an inscription left by the retreating Germans was kept on the lighthouse: “Victory or Siberia?”
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        🖼 Baltic Fleet Museum
        Балтийск, Кронштадтская ул., 2
        🎟 ticket
        The museum of the history of the Baltic Fleet in the red-brick former Pillau courthouse of 1903.
        The museum in the former courthouse is open Wednesday to Sunday, entry until 17:15.
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        Baltic Fleet Museum
        © Helena Lazareva · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Baltic Fleet Museum
        © Edward YS · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The building was put up in 1903 in the Gothic Revival style for a court of first instance.
        • The Baltic Fleet Museum opened here in 1957.
        • Since 2012 it has been a branch of the Central Naval Museum.
        • The exhibition tells the history of the fleet from its founding to the present day.
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        🏛 St George Naval Cathedral
        Балтийск, ул. Адмирала Кузнецова, 3
        A Neo-Gothic church of 1866 — now the naval cathedral of the Baltic Fleet.
        St George Naval Cathedral is in the next block, in the former Reformed church.
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        St George Naval Cathedral
        © Alexander Grebenkov · CC BY 3.0
        • The cathedral opened in 1991 in the former Reformed church of 1866.
        • The building was badly damaged in 1945; in Soviet times it housed a club and a warehouse.
        • In 2001 relics of Admiral Fyodor Ushakov were brought to the cathedral.
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        ☕️ Stantsiya grill bar
        Балтийск, пр. Ленина, 16Б
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        Lunch by the station: a skillet of zander or creamy ukha (fish soup). Opens at 12:00.
        🍴 A grill bar by the water tower, a short walk from the station. What to order: a skillet of zander or prawns, creamy ukha (fish soup), seafood pasta, orange punch.

      ↩️ Getting back: suburban train from Baltiysk at 16:20 → Kaliningrad-Yuzhny 17:25; or buses from the Vokzal Baltiysk stop to Kaliningrad bus station, ≈1 h 30 min — check times in Yandex Schedules

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