- Type
- Castle
- Built
- 1635 · 17th century
- Location
- Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
- Architect
- Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan
- Coordinates
- 48.3814°, 35.1367°
History
In 1635, on the initiative of Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth built an earthen bastioned fortress by the Kodak rapids of the Dnieper to cut the Cossacks' route to the Zaporozhian Sich. It was designed by the French engineer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan. The same year Cossacks under Ivan Sulyma stormed and destroyed it. Rebuilt and strengthened in 1639, it capitulated in 1648 at the start of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The fortress then served the Cossacks until it was demolished after the Treaty of the Pruth in 1711.
What to see
What remains are earthen ramparts and the outlines of bastions on the high bank of the Dnieper at Stari Kodaky, on the southern edge of Dnipro. The site is essentially an archaeological one, with plaques recalling the fortress's history. The Dnieper rapids it once guarded disappeared beneath the water after the DniproHES dam was built in 1932.
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