Description of the attraction
The construction of the 35th coastal battery in the city of Sevastopol began in 1912 by tsarist decree, but the process was interrupted due to the First World War. After the Bolsheviks came to power, they decided to finish building the battery, for this they used the previous drawings, which were drawn up by the tsarist engineers. The construction of the battery was carried out by the best specialists, whose skill is amazing to this day.
The 35th coastal battery is a four-story structure, three of which are underground. According to historical data, a powerful fortification with an impressive combat strength, withstood at least three hits of two-ton bombs, three huge sea shells, and also protected from the penetration of dangerous toxic substances - solid, liquid, gaseous and sprayed. The battery could be compared to a small town, which has a boiler room, a water supply system, a sewage system, a power plant, a telephone and a radio, as well as underground tanks for water, fuel, oil, a workshop, an automatic fire extinguishing system, a wardroom and a medical unit. Coastal battery armament - four 305-mm guns, with a firing range of 40 km.
The battery played a very important role in the defense of the city of Sevastopol. Together with the 30th tower battery, it was a kind of "backbone" of the artillery defense system of the fortress. Having shot all the ammunition and firing about 50 practical shells, by order of the Commandant of the Coastal Defense of the Main Base of the Black Sea Fleet, Major General P. A. Morgunov, the 35th coastal battery was blown up on the night of 1 to 2 July 1942.
During the occupation of the city, the command post of the commander of the seventeenth German army, General K. Almendinger, and a hospital were equipped in the surviving casemates of the battery. In May 1944, the battery was emptied.
After the end of the war, the 35th coastal battery was not restored. But, despite this, its casemates were used as a command post, ammunition storage facilities and personnel quarters of the four-gun 130-mm battery No. 723, which was located near the array of the 35th battery.
