Facts in brief:
Long an important fortification used as naval base to protect St. Petersburg city; site of mutinies 1875-1885 & of Kronsstadt Rebellion 1921,
where sailors mutinied against Bolsheviks; though rebellion failed, it led to New Economic Policy of 1921.
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