BUILDING KODAK FORTRESS (1635) — THE FARTHEST EASTERN OUTPOST OF EUROPEAN DEFENCE
The Dnipro region was to become the Ukrainian region that abounds in extraordinarily numerous events and historic sites. One of those sights is definitely Kodak (in Polish Kudak) fortress situated on the picturesque bank of the Dnipro in a modern settlement Stari Kodaky.
The fortress history can be conventionally divided into several stages. If the first two ones can be rather considered adverse for Ukraine, the third and the last period of its existence arranged everything back to order. The citadel began fulfilling its core functions defending Ukrainian land from its enemies.
The first mentioning of the fortress construction near the Dnipro appeared in 1635. It was then that the authorities of Rzeczpospo
