Yelagina (Mys Yelagina, Yelagina Cape, Ostrov Askold) Lighthouse

It was decided that for such a humid climate as on the island, the tower should be built not from iron, according to the project, but from stone.
The Vladivostok merchant Otto Vasilievich Lindholm became the contractor for the construction of the lighthouse. Engineer Colonel Gakkel was appointed chief observer. 95,685 rubles were allocated for the entire construction. In fact, the construction cost the treasury 168,824 rubles, that is, almost twice as much. This was due to the high cost of materials and the difficulties of their delivery to the construction site. Of the building materials on site, only clay and rubble stone were suitable. Everything else had to be imported from Vladivostok. By the time the lighthouse was erected, there were no residential buildings and roads on the island. Therefore, construction work began with the construction of a pier, barracks for workers and laying a serpentine road around the hill.

The tower, 8.4 meters high from the base, was built of brick, service and residential buildings were made of local rubble stone. The light-optical apparatus was purchased in England at the factory of the Chance Brothers.
Lighting began on September 29, 1881.

Despite the fact that the lighthouse tower was brick, it did not stand even for 50 years. The harsh climate did its job - already at the beginning of the 20th century, the walls of the tower began to crack and crumble. Periodic overhauls did little to help, and in 1917 the lighthouse was rebuilt. Its appearance has been preserved to this day. It is a white octagonal stone tower 8m high near a white one-story building. In a metal lantern structure with a copper dome, a diopter light-optical apparatus of the 1st category with a Chance system lamp was installed.

In this form, the lighthouse existed until the mid-1930s. Then a concrete extension was added to the upper building of technical services and a temporary observation post of artillery battery No. 26 was located there. Later, a new tower of a new lighthouse was installed on the roof of this point, and the lower building of the lighthouse was decommissioned.
In the prewar years, the technical equipment of the lighthouse was improved, and in 1940, by order of the head of the Hydrographic Service of the Pacific Fleet, it was classified as a lighthouse of the first category. During WW II and the war with Japan, the lighthouse reliably ensured the navigation of our ships.

September 21, 1951 in Sevastopol, the construction of a new Kherson lighthouse was completed to replace the old one, destroyed in WW II. In the lamp tower of the new lighthouse, a polysol lighting apparatus was installed, delivered from the Pacific Fleet from the Askold lighthouse.
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Old lighthouse (lower building) inactive since 1976 and in ruins.

Currently, the Askold lighthouse, equipped with modern light-optical equipment and a radio beacon, continues to ensure the safety of navigation on the approaches to Vladivostok. Its white flashing light, located at an altitude of 113 m above sea level, illuminates the area from 84 to 306 ° for a distance of 22 miles.

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