"Forts and fortresses [in the rating] are not just earth mounds. They are perfectly preserved. Their walls remember enemy attacks. Behind the citadel is the history of battles, the heroism of the defenders and legends. The Genoese fortress in Sudak took first place in the rating of the most interesting medieval buildings," analysts told.
The castle, the beaches and the knights of Sudak >>
Also in the top 3 were the forts of Kronstadt, St. Petersburg, and the Solovetskiy fortress in the Arkhangelsk region.
Russian tourists also noted the beauty of the fortress in Pskov, the defensive ring of Königsberg in the Kaliningrad region, the fortress in Velikiy Novgorod, the Russian gate of the Turkish fortress in Anapa, the Naryn-Kala citadel in Dagestan, the Kolomna Kremlin in the Moscow region and the Vovnushki fortress in Ingushetia.