Kronstadt

kron'stat, the seaport of St. Petersburg. It is situated on an island in the Gulf of Finland opposite the mouth of the Neva. Lines of steamers run from Kronstadt to Stockholm, Stettin, Lubeck, Havre, etc. Population, about 60,000. It is the chief naval fortress of Russia and is the headquarters of the Russian navy. It was for this naval station and a water frontage that Peter the Great removed his capital from Moscow and built up a new city at St. Petersburg. See St. Petersburg; Neva