The battery is situated in the southern part of Russky Island 400 km away from Novik Inlet. It consists of two towers three cannons each.
Voroshilovskaya battery is remarkable by the pace it had been established with. K.Ye. Voroshilov, Minister of Defense, approved the project in 1931. Only two years later the battery had been completed. Until now the visitors can see the emblems of Young Communist International drawn on the walls, the evidence of Komsomol members (Young Communist League) participation in the battery construction.

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Russia became a Communist totalitarian state with the revolution of 1917. The militant atheism imposed by the government persecuted all religious beliefs. The Communists destroyed thousands of churches, the buildings being destroyed or converted to other uses (e.g., archives, animal stables, libraries, museums—even museums of atheism). The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and the Communist
Party was outlawed 1991-95.
Religion in General during the Communist Period (1917-91)

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The Primorsky Krai (Russian: Приморский край), also known as “Primorye” (Приморье), is one of Russia’s 89 federal subjects (also referred to as “members of the Federation”). Krai is a term used to refer to several of Russia’s administrative units. Primorsky means maritime in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as the Maritime Province. It is located at the southern extreme of the Russian Far East, bordering China, North Korea, and the Khabarovsk Krai, and separated from Japan by the Sea of Japan.

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ON FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS

This is the translation of the Russian
text of the law printed in the newspaper on 1 October 1997, the effective
date of the law.

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Primorsky Krai, literally ‘maritime region’, stretches along Russia’s Pacific coast, and borders China and North Korea to the west. The port of Vladivostok, the region’s largest city, in September 2002 hosted an APEC investment symposium, attracting delegates from 12 member countries. The event hoped to raise the profile of the Russian Far East in the Asia-Pacific, one of the reasons that Russia joined the forum in 1997.

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These are basic facts on Primorye as provided in a report by the regional administration. Despite the fact that the report was issued in 1998 most information it contains is up to date except that several economic figures may have changed slightly.

The Primorye region as an administrative and territorial unit of Russia was formed with its present boundaries in 1938. It borders the Khabarovsk Region in the north, the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the west and south-west, and is washed by the Sea of Japan in the east and south. Primorye takes up 165,900 square kilometers of territory. The region is located in the south of the Far East. There are 12 regionally-administered cities and 25 rural counties. The capital is Vladivostok.

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Primorsky Krai’s first town, Vladivostok, was founded in 1860, when Tsarist soldiers landed in the Golden Horn Bay and set up a military post. The fast-growing town attracted entrepreneurs from Europe and America, thanks to its closeness to China and Japan, and abundance of natural resources, with Chinese and Korean immigrants providing cheap labour.

Just 18 years later, the city had over 4,000 residents, mostly living in wooden cottages, but successful businessmen built stone mansions. The city had a multi-ethnic flavour, and its main streets were named Koreyskaya (Korean), Pekinskaya (Peking) and Kitayskaya (Chinese).

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