Kronstadt (rus)

Kronstadt

Kronstadt ranks 2,571st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Gondomar, Portugal, Tamale, Ghana, and Redditch. Memorable people born in Kronstadt include Pyotr Kapitsa, Nikolay Gumilyov, and Svetlana Medvedeva. Memorable people who died in Kronstadt include Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, John of Kronstadt, and Lydia Koidula. Kronstadt has been the birth place of many military personnels and physicists and the death place of many writers and explorers. Kronstadt is located in Russia.

Kronstadt is a Russian port city in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, located on Kotlin Island, 30 km (19 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, near the head of the Gulf of Finland. It is linked to the former Russian capital by a combination levee-causeway-seagate, the St Petersburg Dam, part of the city's flood defences, which also acts as road access to Kotlin island from the mainland. Read more on Wikipedia