Cronstadt

a fortified seaport of Ru ia, about 20 miles W. of St. Petersburg, in the narrowest part of the guif of Finland, opposite to the mouth of the Neva, on a long, narrow, rocky island, forming, both by its position and the strength of its fortifications, the bulwark of the capital, and being the most important naval station of the empire. It was founded by Peter the Great in 1710, and used to be the commercial port of St. Petersburg, but since the construction of @ canal giving large ve els direct acce to the capital it has lost this position, Pop. 59,600.