Russia · 19th century
Groznaya ranks #7,731 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #133 of the 145 mapped in Russia. Founded 1818, it is older than 11% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.
The fortress of Groznaya was the administrative and strategic centre of the left flank of the Caucasian line, in the valley of the Sunzha River, founded in 1818. It was an important link in the Sunzha fortified line; the fortress's principal purpose was to block the Khankala gorge, and it served as the seat of the commander of the left flank and as the assembly point for the military detachments sent deep into Chechnya during the Caucasian War.
Machine-translated from “Грозная” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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