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Bratsky stockaded town tower

Bratsky stockaded town tower (in open-air museum in Kolomenskoye, Moscow). Photo August 13, 1977.

Bratsky stockaded town tower (in open-air museum in Kolomenskoye, Moscow).
Photo by N.I.Zharkikh, August 13, 1977.

Bratsky stockaded town tower on the Angara river was one of the outpost of Russian rule in Siberia. Tower built in 1659. In 1950th, during the construction of Bratsk Hydroelectric Station, the area of the ancient fortifications subject to flooding. Tower was dismantled and moved to Kolomenskoye.

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