Storozhensky lighthouse

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Storozhensky lighthouse (“Seventh Heaven”), which is believed to be the tallest lighthouse in the Russian Federation and Northern Europe, and the third tallest in the world. Height is approximately 72 meters, 399 steps. In the Storozhno area there are so-called sacrificial stones. One of them is located 4 kilometers east of the lighthouse; it is a large boulder of a characteristic shape - the Pichin stone.

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Coordinates: 6031.9'N 3237.7'E

The history of the lighthouse business on Ladoga must begin in 1799, when the decision was made to build the first two lighthouses - on Cape Storozhensky and on the Zheleznitsa luda (shoal). The drawings of these structures were approved by Major General François Sainte de Wollant in 1799, even before the opening of the Mariinsky and Tikhvin waterways.

Their actual construction began in March 1800. The fate of these first Ladoga lighthouses was short - in the very first year they were demolished by ice. The Storozhensky lighthouse was repaired, rebuilt, and it continued to work. In an 1811 report it was written about it that it was “uniformly in a state of disrepair.” The fate of the lighthouse on the Zheleznitsa Lud did not work out - the next lighthouse, which was made floating, was also demolished by the storm.

Thus, it turns out that at the beginning of the 19th century on Lake Ladoga we know of only one official operating lighthouse - on Cape Storozhensky. By the way, apparently, the stone that served as the basis for this structure has been preserved, since on the edge of the cape that goes to Ladoga, there is a granite boulder, on which grooves for fastening beams and stairs are visible. However, as often happens, ordinary traces of human activity are now accepted as sacred signs and the stone began to be revered as an ancient cult object by local monks, who installed an Orthodox cross on it.

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