Mikhailovskaya battery fortification monument of the XIX century is located on the northern side of the Sevastopol bay. Today we’ll reach the second layer of the casemate battery where an exhibition devoted to the heroic city is held.
Mikhailovskaya battery used to be an abandoned military complex later transformed into an interesting historic object.
During the reconstruction of the battery it was decided to preserve the natural atmosphere leaving bare stone walls and timber floor as they were. You won’t see any laminate or plaster here. Electric wires pass below the ceiling.
The casemates are separated into the side and residential areas heated with stoves. Every inhabited section is supplied with a stove like this.
The battery equipment is related to the 19th century.
I am pretty sure that is a Maxim Machine Gun and not a Vickers. I could be wrong though. It has happened once or twice
The first machine gun picture is a Vickers (with the water cooling pipe fitting), and the next 2 belong to a Maxim machine gun (check the different sights).
I’d hate to be in that room when they fired the cannon!! Man, I bet they were all just about deaf.
A. Bunka here. Very cool, looks like it was built a few years ago. Outstanding work by the curators.
Masonry forts like this became obsolete in the 1860′s with the development of rifled cannon. Walls that could withstand cannonballs shattered when struck by cylindro-conoidal projectiles.