Russia · 16th century
Zavolochye ranks #7,769 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #134 of the 145 mapped in Russia. Founded 1536, it is older than 40% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 887 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.
Zavolochye (Russian: Заволочье) – a Russian wooden fortress, built on Lake Bystroye by the inhabitants of Novgorod the Great in 1536 on seized territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, during the Lithuanian-Muscovite War of 1534–1537. It was strengthened by Tsar Ivan the Terrible with ramparts reaching up to 10 m in height. During the Polish-Russian War of 1577–1582 it was captured in 1580 by the Polish forces of Stephen Báthory under the command of Jan Zamoyski.
It is situated in Pskov Oblast. Only its ruins have survived to this day.
Machine-translated from “Zawołocze” on the Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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