The Victoria Bastion is a fortified structure designed by

Erik Dahlberg '' Count Erik Jönsson Dahlbergh (10 October 162516 January 1703) was a Swedish military engineer, Governor-general and Field marshal. He rose to the level of nobility through his military competence. As an architect and draftsman, he was reno ...

Narva Narva, russian: Нарва is a municipality and city in Estonia. It is located in Ida-Viru county, at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, on the west bank of the Narva river which forms the Estonia–Russia international border. With 54 ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

built in 1683–1704. It is one of the seven Narva Bastions. The bastion was destroyed in 1704 during the

Great Northern War The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swed ...

between Sweden and Russia and was rebuilt after the war. It is officially listed as part of the cultural heritage in Estonia. Narva's largest

bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most ...

colony lives in the bastion.Ilya Smirnov
Narva's bats
Põhjarannik, 16 September 2011

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Narva's bastions
{{Narva landmarks Fortifications in Estonia Buildings and structures in Narva Tourist attractions in Ida-Viru County