Oh, Russian.Vyatlin Mountain. GPK Voroshilov battery.Cape Schmidt.Descent to the bay of Karpinsky.
Day 3 of my trip to Russky Island. In this series, we will visit the Coastal anti-landing caponier No. 6.
We will climb Mount Vyatlina, explore the main command post of the Voroshilov battery, walk to Cape Schmidt and further to Karpinsky Bay.
Caponier No. 6.
After the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, it was decided to make the antiamphibious defense of the fortress independent of the existing coastal batteries and those proposed for construction, and most importantly, resistant to massive shelling from the sea. As a result, we stopped at the construction of a system of coastal caponiers and semi-caponiers for roll-out artillery of field samples. Each caponier was a concrete casemate shelter for four field 3-inch rapid-fire guns of the 1902 model.
On the sides of the structure there are two casemates for storing guns (two in each) with separate exits to the outside, which were initially closed by steel gates. Between them, in two small casemates, a cellar was equipped where ammunition was stored, and an electric generator stood, and people were housed in a transverse casemate connecting the front ends of the gun shelters. The caponier had gun barbets on both sides of the building and was not attached to the coastal slope, since he defended sections of the coast on both sides of himself. The camouflage was provided by a protective embankment, skillfully inscribed in the terrain. The structure was equipped with 2 electric searchlights. Object severely damaged by explosion.
In 2018, a part of a previously damaged concrete monolith collapsed, in connection with which the Inspectorate for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects of the Primorsky Territory adopted a Decision of 03.05.2018 No. 65-03-14 / 80 “On the suspension of access to a part of the cultural heritage and culture) of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance, included in the register (reg. No. 251510114500086) "Coastal anti-landing caponier No. 6", due to the deterioration of its physical condition. Currently, the object can only be viewed from the outside.
The main command post of the Voroshilov battery was located on Mount Vyatlin, 1.5 km from the towers and had everything necessary for an autonomous existence - central heating, a diesel generator, and a supply of water. It housed the "brain" of the battery - an electromechanical calculating device that translated target data (distance and direction) into commands for aiming guns.
Cape Schmidt was named after the commander of the Pacific squadron, Admiral Vladimir Petrovich Schmidt, presumably in the late 1880s.