Taavetti Fortress ( Finnish : Taavetin linnoitus ), is a fortress located in Taavetti in the municipality of Luumäki in Finland .
5-583: Taavetti Fortress was built at a strategically important road junction at the southern end of the Salpausselkä . The walls of the fortress give it an almost circular shape.This Fortress is part of the southeastern Finnish fortification system built by Russia after the Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790. During the first phase of construction which extends from 1773 to 1781, a fortress is built consisting of ramparts, measuring approximately 650 x 800 meters. During
10-597: Is an extensive ridge system left by the ice age in Southern Finland . It is a large terminal moraine formation that formed in front of the Baltic ice lake during the Younger Dryas period about 12,250–10,400 years ago. All together the formation is close to 500 km (310 mi) from end to end, and the ridges can be as tall as 80 m (260 ft) in some places. It runs from Hanko hundreds of kilometers to
15-692: The Salpausselkä. The Kymi River flows from Päijänne into the Gulf of Finland. An artificial breach from the Lakeland is the Saimaa Canal , from Saimaa at Lappeenranta into the Gulf of Finland at Vyborg . Salpausselkä has been used for transportation because of the easy terrain for centuries; later on both railways and highways have been built to follow it. It is also an important source of clean groundwater filtering from
20-467: The east. It traps the extensive river and lake systems of Central Finland known as Finnish Lakeland ( Finnish : Järvi-Suomi , "Lake Finland") and forces the water to flow through few breaches in the ridge. The Vuoksi River flows from lake Saimaa into Lake Ladoga ( Finnish : Laatokka ) in Russia . From there the water subsequently flows through river Neva into the Gulf of Finland , bypassing
25-644: The second phase of construction from 1791 to 1796, the interior buildings of the fortress were raised. Military use of the fortress ceased in 1803 before the war in Finland. The ruins of the fortress were restored in the 1980s and open-air events are held here. The Finnish Heritage Agency has listed Taavetti Fortress as a Built Cultural Site of National Interest in Finland. 60°55′22″N 27°33′27″E / 60.9227°N 27.5575°E / 60.9227; 27.5575 Salpausselk%C3%A4 Salpausselkä ( Finnish: [ˈsɑlpɑu̯sˌselkæ] ; "Bar Ridge")
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