Kronstadt

:This article is about the Russian town known in English as Kronstadt. Kronstadt is also the historical German name for the city of Bra?ov, Romania.

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Kronstadt (Russian: ?????????; also Kronshtadt, Cronstadt) is a strongly fortified Russian seaport town, located on Kotlin Island, near the head of the Gulf of Finland, at . It lies 20 miles west of Saint Petersburg, of which it is the chief port. It was the site of the Kronstadt rebellion of March 1921.

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Traditionally, it has served as the base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and the seat of the Russian admiralty, and to guard the approaches to the city of Saint Petersburg.

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