الأربعاء، 6 يونيو 2018

Plague Fort: The Most Mysterious Place in Kronstadt, Russia

Not a long way from Kronstadt, the quiet dividers of the post "Ruler Alexander I" or "Torment" ascend from the water of the Gulf of Finland. The historical backdrop of the deserted working, in which a baffling research facility was found a hundred years prior, still energizes occupants and visitors of St. Petersburg

The military history of the fortress "Head Alexander I" ended up being somewhat short. In 1838 the Russian Emperor Nicholas I chose to assemble a fortification. Amid the Crimean War (1853-1856) and after it the fortress was modernized ordinarily, and these measures guaranteed the entire detachment of Kronstadt for the Anglo-French armada. By and by, toward the finish of the nineteenth century, the gear of "Alexander I" wound up out of date, and it stopped to perform military capacities. It was from this minute started the most baffling page ever of stronghold.

In 1894, a pandemic of torment broke out in Hong Kong and Canton. Around one hundred thousand individuals kicked the bucket. From China, the illness started to enter into different nations. By 1896, the torment achieved the Caspian steppes of Russia. Segregated from the outside world, the stronghold was perfect for savage employments, and here was set Komochum, Russia's first hostile to torment research facility, where a few specialists kicked the bucket in explores different avenues regarding unsafe microorganisms. Occupants of Kronstadt were anxious even of the breezes blowing from the side of the stronghold.

Admission to the fortification was entirely constrained, correspondence with the outside world was kept up with the assistance of a little steamer, which had an amusing name "Microorganism". With Kronstadt, the stronghold was associated by a phone line, and with Petersburg - by a transmit.

The two-story outside fortification had three stories inside. The building was symmetrically partitioned into two parts, each had its own staircase. One of the stones, the other cast-press. The correct part, comprising of office space was infectious, the left part was non-infectious. At the fortress there were research centers, working rooms, stables and spaces for different creatures, on which researchers attempted the activities of imagined solutions: dairy animals, goats, camels, monkeys, rabbits and even reindeers. There were additionally incineration broilers for reusing waste and carcasses, a sterilizer, a clothing, a sauna, a kitchen, an electric station, specialists' rooms, a lounge area, an exhibition hall, a library and other essential lofts.

It is hard to envision the full importance of crafted by each one of the individuals who worked at the Plague Fort, who gave the chance to put a dependable hindrance to the most unpleasant pestilences and consequently spare a great many human lives.

Today, Plague Fort has the miserable destiny of all the antiquated Kronstadt strongholds. Like different posts, it bit by bit crumbles. Despite the fact that the post still has a comment: novel cast-press staircases, systems and dividers of the fortress are safeguarded. They say that in the storm cellar you can discover even an old broiler. All over the "heritage of movie producers" is left - everything that was utilized for the taping of narrative movies.

In the late spring vacationers come here on a little steamer to take a gander at the vestiges of the stronghold question. In winter, a few adrenaline junkies arrive by walking along the ice of the inlet.

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