The Vladivostok Fortress is a unique system of fortifications that is like no other in the world.

Vladivostok fortress is a complex of fortifications built in the city and its surroundings at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. It was created by Russian military engineers, builders, sappers and soldiers.

The unnamed battery is one of the oldest fortifications of the Vladivostok fortress. In 1862, smooth-bore guns were placed on the Bezymyannaya hill and a platoon of mountain artillery was stationed. From that moment on, the name Battery was fixed to the hill.

In the early 1880s, under the leadership of a military engineer, Captain V.P. Shirokov, a more powerful coastal fortification line was erected at this place. In the years 1897-1900, it was rebuilt in concrete by a military engineer, Captain Yakubovsky. After the construction of powerful batteries armed with modern guns on Russky Island in 1909–1914, the Nameless Battery largely lost its combat significance.

The builders of the Vladivostok fortress took into account the shortcomings that caused the fall of the seaside fortress Port Arthur in 1905. All main buildings were interconnected by roads, underground communication cables, supplied with electricity. This made it almost impossible to attack Vladivostok from the sea.

In 1917, work in the fortress almost ceased, and in 1923, after the establishment of Soviet power in Primorye, it was generally abolished by agreement between the Japanese command and the command of the People’s Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic about the demilitarization of Vladivostok. The remaining weapons were dismantled, and fortifications were abandoned for a long time.

The unnamed battery was forgotten during the Civil War, in 1923 it was completely disarmed. In the 30s of the XX century, the Nameless battery was partially destroyed and rebuilt in car repair shops.

Today the complex of fortifications of the Vladivostok fortress is a monument of federal significance. On October 30, 1996, in the city, on the territory of the Bezimiannaya castle, a museum was opened dedicated to the history of the Vladivostok fortress. In the external exposition there are samples of construction equipment used in the construction of Vladivostok fortifications in 1910-1917 (trolleys, a fragment of a cable car, cement). Samples of artillery weapons, used in the 1930-1990 years on ships of the Pacific Fleet and in coastal defense, were also displayed there. The internal expositions of the museum tells about the history of the city. The main internal exposure is located in 3 separate casemates of an unnamed battery.

Every year (spring and autumn) Pacific soldiers take the oath at the museum.

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