Yenikal’skiy (Yenikalskiy, Cape Fonar)

Cape Fonar is the easternmost point of the Crimean peninsula, and it forms the west side of the northern entrance to the Kerch Strait from the Sea of Azov. The name 'fonar' (фонарь) means "lantern" in Russian. Located high above the strait in the city of Krym. Site open, tower closed.

About Chanse's lens:
"..In the beginning, the lighthouse had a wooden lantern. When the lantern fell into disrepair in 1835, it was replaced with a cast iron one. In the middle of the 19th century, the time came for a qualitative improvement in the lighting equipment of the lighthouse. In 1860, a new diopter light-optical device of the 1st category was installed in the lantern with white fire, interrupted every minute by a series of strong flashes (glitters).
Lighting with a new light fixture began on October 13, 1861. It was served by a caretaker and six employees..."

WW II.
Before the Great Patriotic War, the lighthouse was the oldest in the Crimea. In 1941, the lighthouse keeper Mikhail Nikolaevich Egorov evacuated the lighthouse equipment to the Taman coast. In May 1942, the batteries of the 571st separate anti-aircraft artillery battalion held the defense against German tanks advancing in the lighthouse area. Senior sailor Alexander Filimonov corrected the fire of Soviet batteries. When German tanks appeared, a flag was raised above the lighthouse, causing fire from the Chushka Spit. The lighthouse was destroyed by shells, the hydrographs besieged in the lighthouse, which ensured the crossing of the retreating Red Army, died. In 1943, the lighthouse resumed lighting with a temporary lantern installed on the ruins of the tower. After the liberation of Kerch in 1944, the lighthouse equipment was brought back. In 1946, on the site of the destroyed lighthouse, a temporary wooden tower 20 meters high with a lantern structure at the top was erected.

Modernity
In 1953, a modern stone lighthouse tower was built, a lighthouse technical building was erected, where diesel-electric units and a stationary storage battery were installed. The old light-optical apparatus was mounted with a new light source - an electric lamp.

In 1957, an imported light-optical apparatus, rotating in a bath with mercury, was replaced by an electric EM-35/2. At present, the modern, more advanced electric apparatus EMV-3 serves as a light source.