Curator Selection / 2024 / /

• Photographer
  Vytautas Butkus, Lithuania
• Category
  Europe

Fortifications built in Karosta, Latvia in 1894 - 1900. By order of the Russian Tsar Alexander III with the aim of defending the port city from the German Empire. The fortifications were never used for military purposes. During the First World War, in 1915 in the summer, the forts were blown up to prevent them from being used by the Germans.
In the undirected photo, vacationers in 2023. summer on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Karosta.