Tarakanivskiy Fort

Tarakaniv Fort (Ukrainian: Тараканівський форт), also known as Dubno fort (Форт-застава Дубно) is a 19th-century fortress located next to Tarakaniv village in the Dubno Raion of Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. It was commissioned and built by Alexander II of the Russian Empire and can be found next to Lviv-Kyiv Highway M06 on the right bank of the Ikva river. The fortress could accommodate up to 800 people.

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Tarakanivskiy Fort ranks #2,787 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #38 of the 43 mapped in Ukraine. See how Ukraine compares in the castle statistics.

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