Ukraine · 18th century
Bilevska fortress ranks #4,621 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #67 of the 195 mapped in Ukraine. Founded 1731, it is older than 19% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 3,295 times in the last 60 days, more than 80% of the atlas. See how Ukraine compares in the castle statistics.
Bilevska fortress (the tenth fortress) is a fortress founded on 11 August 1731 to the standard design of the fortresses of the Ukrainian Line. It was the tenth fortress of the Ukrainian defensive line. It lies in the centre of the town of Berestyn, in Kharkiv Oblast.
Bilevska fortress was a square with sides of 100 metres, with bastions built at the corners. On the south side of the fortress, just beyond the ditch, stood a forward redoubt. Inside the fortress stood barracks, an arsenal, a powder cellar, a treasury and a well. When the underground passages were built has not been established.
Machine-translated from “Бєльовська фортеця” on the Ukrainian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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