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[new]
25.05.2005
Enthusiasts on Island Mangali

It is possible to look long time on old concrete and to pick a foot rusty bolts, being distressed thus, that local authorities do not protect monument of history. But it is possible to take a shovel in hands and to clear the basis of the gun, constructed 60 years ago by hands of sailors and to understand something such that forces us to operate. We also are local authorities, it is our history, to us her to protect.
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[new]
08.10.2004
"Cranes" of Island Oro

Again we address to an old map of sea. Island Dago and peninsula Hanko. The Advanced Position of Baltic Fleet. The biggest circle of sector of bombardment has the center small point on map - Island Oro. Here in 1916 has entered build the battery №60 consisting from four 305/52 open artillery systems. How there was destiny of guns of the battery of Oro?
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[new]
04.10.2004
Visit on Island Kuivasaari

Through small tambour we enter inside, the ladder leaves downwards, smells as machines oil, dry warm air goes from below from vaults. All is clean and accurate, fresh paint, brand new pipes of ventilation. We are at the basis of tower. On trays two huge shells are prepared. Powder cartridges, in canvas environments, have settled down on directing with copper runners.
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[new]
31.07.2004
Batteries of Island Mangali

For the port town danger always came from sea. Coastal defense of Riga was under construction for centuries. Fortress Daugavgriva, Riga Citadel, forts Bolderaya and batteries Mangalsala - all this built German, Swedish and Russian military builders on coast of Daugava to protect the trading City Riga from an attack from the sea.
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04.07.2004
Fighting diesel engine

Diesel engines for Moonzund turrets batteries in 1940 " Engine of revolution " has put plant from City Gorkij. The diesel plant on coast of Volga, in Nizhni Novgorod, has appeared in 1915. It was evacuated from Riga machine-building and iron-works plant "Felzer and Co ".
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