Russia · 16th century
Ufa Kremlin ranks #6,535 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #118 of the 145 mapped in Russia. Founded 1574, it is older than 34% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 887 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.
The Ufa Kremlin is a historic fortification, not preserved to the present day, within Old Ufa, which stood on the site of the present-day Friendship Monument. It was a kremlin with a massive wooden wall with a total length of 440 metres. Above its southern and northern parts rose oaken towers. The Ufa Kremlin consisted of the Mikhailovskaya tower, the Nikolskaya tower, the Naugolnaya tower, the voivode's house, the chancellery hut, the Smolensk Cathedral, a bell tower, grain stores and a prison.
Machine-translated from “Уфимский кремль” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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