Ostrog (fortress)

As Ostrog (Russian острог ) refers to fixed, four to six meter high palisade walls surrounded settlement points that were built in Russia until the 17th century. Etymologically, the word is the verb strogat ( строгать ) connected, which means something like " carve " means.

Ostroge played an important role in the Russian expansion into Siberia, where they offered the conquerors protection against the attacks of the native population. Many Siberian cities have emerged from estrogen - including Tomsk, Yakutsk, Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk.

In the 18th and 19th centuries were also prisons, which were surrounded by a wall called the Ostrog in Russia.

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