Kodak Fortress

Kodak (Polish Kudak, Ukrainian Кодак ) was a Polish fortress, which was built in 1635 on the initiative of Stanisław Koniecpolski 10 km below the present Dnipropetrovsk on the right bank of the Dnieper River opposite the mouth of the Samara. It was used to control the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Particularly, it should be prevented that Ukrainian peasants who joined them.

The fortress was conquered in the same year in a surprise attack by Cossacks under Ivan Sulyma who slew the 200 -strong crew and destroy the fortress. 1639 Kodak was built by the Poles twice as large as the first fortification again. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising, the commanded by Krzysztof Lada Grodzicki fortress was built in 1648 for seven months besieged by the Cossack troops before they surrendered.

After the Treaty of Perejaslav 1654 Kodak was a Cossack fortress until it was razed in 1711 by the Russians because of the peace treaty of the Pruth with the Ottoman Empire. Near the fortress settlement of Stari Kodak was.

Since 1940, a quarry was operated in the immediate vicinity of the fortress ruins, which led to the destruction of large parts of the remains of the fortress. Today the remains of the fortress above the former, now filled with water Quarry, in the village of Stari Kodaky ( Старі Кодаки, municipality Nowoolexandriwka ) in Rajon Dnipropetrovsk.