Ukraine · Ruin
Kodak Fortress
Kodak Fortress was a compact bastioned fortress sited on the Dnipro River at the Kodak rapids. The plan is a symmetric star-shaped curtain with projecting angular bastions, outer works and a causeway connection to the riverbank. Today it survives only as ruin/earthwork remains; this brief reconstructs the fort as it appeared in its prime.
Its prime
1635
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1635
What Kodak Fortress looked like in its prime.
A compact, symmetrical bastioned fort in a four-pointed star layout sitting directly on the Dnipro riverbank, with angular projecting bastions connected by low, straight curtain walls around a central rectangular inner enclosure; a raised causeway links the fort to the shore; detached outworks and a small fortified quay lie along the river edge; the roofline is low and military, with parapets and gun emplacements visible on the bastions and an open parade within the inner square.
Its story
The story of Kodak Fortress.
Kodak was built in 1635 on the orders of Władysław IV Vasa and the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, planted on the Dnieper beside the Kodak rapids near what became Stari Kodaky, now on the edge of the city of Dnipro. It was a compact star-shaped bastioned fort — a symmetric curtain with projecting angular bastions, outer works and a causeway to the riverbank — and one of the Dnieper Rapids took its name.
The fort's history was violent: at one point Cossacks captured it and sold the Kodak commander and other officers to the Tatars as slaves. In 1711, under the Treaty of the Pruth, the fortress was destroyed by the Russians, and it survives today only as ruins and earthworks.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1635.
The record describes 5 distinct spots at Kodak Fortress — including 1 interior: inner parade and courtyard (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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