Karaosta (literally war-port) was a place you wouldn't find on the map during the Soviet times - a whole district of Liepāja was a military base and inhabited by Soviet fleet. After the Red army eventually withdrew in 1994 it has become a free-access place with many disturbing, but in many ways curious scenes - abandoned block houses, haunted Czar time houses, traces of military facilities etc. For me the most gripping site was the North fort - a defensive fortress of Russian empire which was blown up by retreating Russians in 1915 during WW1.
Here's a view from the mall
Baltic sea shows no mercy - those immobile concrete structures lay where they used to be in 1915. Now there's a nice bay :).
Nice...
On posts like that the cannons would be placed on. The name of the site could be concrete bay :).
A peek through the cells,
From the other side the cannons would get supplied.
The whole stuff
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