Fort Alexander I

Fort Alexander, also Fort Alexander I, or Plague Fort (Russian: Форт Александр Первый Fort Aleksandr Perviy or Russian: Чумный форт Chumnyi fort, English: "Plague fort") is a naval fortress on an artificial island in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. From 1899 to 1917, the fort housed a research laboratory on plague and other bacterial diseases.

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Fort Alexander I ranks #2,492 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #58 of the 127 mapped in Russia. Founded 1845, it is older than 10% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.

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