The second fortified camp and the command post of Peter I

What? - The second fortified camp of the Moscow army and the command post of Peter I

Description

On the eve of the Battle of Poltava, the Moscow army redeployed to the area of the village of Yakivtsi, where the second fortified camp was built on June 25, 1709. It was a U-shaped defensive system, which consisted of seventeen fortification elements: two bastions, two half-bastions and thirteen redan, connected to each other by earthen ramparts surrounded by moats. The second fortified camp played an important role in the concentration of the entire Moscow army on the eve of the Battle of Poltava and was an advantageous point of transition from defense to offensive on June 27, 1709.

During 1853–1854, part of the second fortified camp was restored by the forces of cadets of the Petrovsky Poltava cadet corps under the leadership of officer I. Kollert. On the same territory, since the 1980s, there was a cadet summer sports camp, the land for which was purchased by Poltava Bishop Hilarion. Apparently, thanks to this, the site of the monument was not destroyed by field work.

  The hill can be seen for the first time on an aerial photograph taken by a German reconnaissance plane on July 29, 1941. From this, it can be concluded that it was filled between 1909 and 1941. The hill is also marked on a topographical map of the scale 1: 25000, taken in 1954, at the same time it is identified for the first time in the guidebook of the museum of the history of the Battle of Poltava. In 1973, a memorial sign in the form of a stone block with a width of 3.15 m and a height of 0.74 m was installed on the hill.

Speciality

In the early years of Soviet rule, a concentration camp for the so-called "bourgeois element" was located on this territory.