Gogland (Lighthouse Lower Gogland)

1965 (station established 1723). Round cylindrical concrete block tower with lantern and gallery, painted with red and white horizontal bands. Gogland (Suursaari in Finnish, Hogland in Swedish, Hochland in German, all names meaning "high island") is the largest of the central Gulf islands and the closest to the Finnish coast.

Peter I had a lighthouse built here in 1723, but it's not known how long that light survived. In 1807 the station was established as a range with lights on short stone towers.

In 1861 the rear light was replaced by a keeper's house with a large lantern on the roof. The 1861 lighthouse probably did not survive World War II, when Gogland was a base for Soviet troops. It was replaced after the war by a skeletal tower and then by the masonry lighthouse in 1965. A Russian travel agency has built a hotel on the island and is offering tours from Primorsk.

About Chance's lens:
The lower lighthouse was also rebuilt several times. In 1835
Spafaryev tested various types of reflectors on it: copper, platinum and gilded, made at the Alexander Iron Works in St. Petersburg.
In 1868, catoptric lighting was replaced with dioptric lighting at the lighthouse by installing a refractive lighting apparatus of the 4th category. The height of the fire in the new lantern structure on a cast-iron plinth 2.3 m high was 10 m from sea level and 6.5 m from the base.
The metal lantern with mirrored glass was made in England at the factory of the Chance Brothers, the lamp was made in the workshop of the Lighthouse Directorate of the Baltic Sea.