Talk:Maxim Gorky Fortresses

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Is there a confirmed source that Dora was used Crimea? Dora's own wiki page says that Schwerer Gustav was used Crimea and Dora was used in Stalingrad.

Not battleship turrets

The original turrets of the Maxim Gorky fortresses were not battlesip turrets but thickly armoured two-gun round turrets designed specifically for land fortifications. Similar turrets were used, e.g., in the Peter the Great Sea Fortress forts in the Baltic; one is still retained in working condition on Kuivasaari Island in Finland. The Maxim Gorky fortress turrets did use the same guns (Obukhov 305mm/12") that the last Imperial Russian Dreadnaught battleships (the Gangut and Imperatritsa Mariya classes) used, but the ships' guns were in angular triple turrets. The current turrets of the reconstructed Maxim Gorky 1 fortress are three-gun battleship turrets from the Gangut-class Frunze (originally called the Poltava) scrapped in 1949; the original turrets were destroyed during the war.--Death Bredon (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]