St Catherine Cathedral of Yamburg was built in 1764-1782 to a late baroque design by Antonio Rinaldi.

Kingisepp (Russian: Кингисепп), formerly Yamburg (Ямбург) and Yama, is a Russian town in the Leningrad oblast, at 59°21′ N 28°39′ E. It lies along the Luga River, 137 km west of Saint Petersburg, 20 km east of Narva, and 49 km south of the Gulf of Finland. It has around 50.300 inhabitants (2003). Image File history File links Rinaldis cathedral in Yamburg, now Kingisepp (1762-82). ... Image File history File links Rinaldis cathedral in Yamburg, now Kingisepp (1762-82). ... Rinaldis cathedral in a provincial Russian town, 1764 Antonio Rinaldi (1710-1794) was an Italian architect, trained by Luigi Vanvitelli, who worked mainly in Russia. ... Leningrad Oblast (Russian: Ленингра́дская о́бласть; tr. ... The Luga River (Луга in Russian) is a river in the Novgorod and Leningrad Oblasts in Russia. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... The reconstructed fortress of Narva (to the left) overlooking the Russian fortress of Ivangorod (to the right). ... The Baltic Sea The Gulf of Finland is an arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Finland (to the north) and Estonia (to the south) all the way to the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. ...

The town was first documented in 1384, when the Novgorodians built there a fortress against the Swedes. They called it Yama or Yamsky Gorodok, after a Finnic tribe which lived in the area. The fortress withstood sieges by the Teutonic Knights in 1395 and from 1444 to 1448. At the end of the Livonian War, it was ceded to Sweden, only to be returned 12 years later, in 1595. Following the Treaty of Stolbovo, it again passed to the Swedes, who renamed it Yamburg and destroyed its fortifications in 1682. Events May / September 3 - Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1383-1385 Crisis Births Deaths December 31 - John Wyclif, theologian Categories: 1384 ... The Novgorod Republic was an early republic that existed in the North-West territory of modern day Russia, in Novgorod lands between 1136 and 1478. ... Finnic (Fennic, sometimes Baltic Finnic) may refer to Finnish-similar languages spoken close to the Gulf of Finland, i. ... Teutonic Knights, charging into battle. ... Events End of reign of Hungary by Capet-Anjou family. ... Events March 1 - Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance April 16 - Truce of Tours. ... Events January 5/ 6 - Christopher of Bavaria, Norway and Sweden dies with no designated heir leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones. ... The Reformation reached Livonia in the 1520s. ... Events January 30 - William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. ... After nearly two months of negotiations, representatives from Sweden and Russia, met at the (now derelict) village of Stolbovo, south of Lake Ladoga, February 27, 1617, to sign a peace treaty to end the Ingrian War. ... Events March 11 – Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. ...

In 1703, the town was taken by the Russians in the course of the Great Northern War. Five years later, Peter the Great granted the town to Alexander Menshikov in his capacity of the Duke of Izhora. The Swedish form of its name, however, was retained until 1922, when the Bolsheviks renamed it after the Estonian Communist leader Viktor Kingissepp. It shouldn't be confused with the Estonian town of Kuressaare, formerly Kingissepa.
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Fortresses of Western Russia

Gdov | Ivangorod | Izborsk | Kirillov | Koporye | Korela | Kronstadt | Ladoga | New Dvina Fort | Novgorod | Oreshek | Porkhov | Pskov | Smolensk | Solovki | St Petersburg | Vyborg | Yamburg Kremlin (Кремль) is the Russian word for citadel or castle and refers to any major fortified central complex found in historical Russian cities. ... Koporye Fortress near St Petersburg Photo courtesy of www. ... Gdov (Гдов) is a both a Russian district, found in the north of the Pskov Oblast, and a town within it, which stands on the river Gdovka. ... Ivangorod Fortress is a castle constructed near the town of Ivangorod, Russia. ... Izborsk (И́зборск in Russian, Irboska in Estonian) is an old Russian town to the west of Pskov and just to the east from the Estonian border. ... Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, properly translated in English as The Assumption monastery of St Cyril, has always rivalled the Solovetsky Monastery as the strongest fortress and the richest landowner of the Russian North. ... Koporye Fortress near St Petersburg Koporye (Russian: Копорье) is a historic village in Russia, about 100 km to the west of St Petersburg, which contains some of the most impressive medieval ruins in Russia. ... Korela Fortress, at the town of Priozersk, was founded by the Karelians who named the place Novogorodian chronicles refer to it as It was first mentioned in a Novgorodian chronicle of 1143 and archeological digs have revealed a layer belonging to the 12th century. ... 1888 map of Kronstadt bay Kronstadt (Russian: Кронштадт; also Kronshtadt, Cronstadt) is a strongly fortified Russian seaport town, located on Kotlin Island, near the head of the Gulf of Finland, at 59° 59′ 30″ N 29° 46′ 30″ E. It lies 20 miles west of Saint Petersburg, of which it is... Ladoga may refer to one of the following. ... A 19th-century view of Arkhangelsk port. ... Velikiy Novgorod (Но́вгород) is the foremost historic city of North-Western Russia, situated on the highway (and railway) connecting Moscow and St Petersburg. ... Orechovets is an island with the fortress Oreshek (Nöteborg in Swedish, given the name Schlisselburg/Schlüsselburg after its re-conquest by Peter the Great in 1702). ... Porkhov (Порхов in Russian) is a town in the Pskov Oblast in Russia. ... 10-ruble Russian coin of 2003 in the Ancient cities of Russia series - commemorating Pskov Pskov (Псков, ancient spelling Пльсковъ, also Pihkva (Estonian), Pleskau (German) and Psków (Polish)) is an ancient Russian city, located in the north-west of Russia near the present-day border with Estonia, on the river... A view of Smolensk in 1912 Smolensk (Russian: Смоленск;, Belarusian: Смаленск) is a city in western Russia, located on the Dniepr river at 54. ... Solovetsky Monastery Solovetsky Monastery (Соловецкий монастырь in Russian), a monastery on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. ... The Peter and Paul Fortress (Петропавловская крепость) is in St. ... Vyborg from the tower of the castle Vyborg (transcription of Russian Выборг , finnish Viipuri) is a town with 70,000 inhabitants at Russias border to Finland, on the Karelian Isthmus, close to Saint Petersburg. ...