Primary industries include fishing and the extraction of stone. Population: 5, estimate. The city was founded as a military stronghold by the Imperial Russian Navy.
It was named for Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko , who was assigned to military service here during his exile. Today the town is used by the Kazakhstan Navy as a base. The coat of arms of Fort Alexandrovsky was approved October 22, , along with other arms of the Transcaspian field: It is black and silver depicting the fortress and two fish. Fort Alexandrovsky was the site of naval action on 21 May , when a Squadron of the British Caspian Flotilla attacked the port.
There are several landmarks of significance; Shevchenko Memorial Museum, National History, and ethnographic museums.
The Shevchenko Memorial Museum opened in near where he had been hiding. There are also some remnants of the fortress, a monument to Shevchenko and a state grave of Civil War heroes. Media related to Fort-Shevchenko at Wikimedia Commons. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the town of Fort-Shevchenko. For the nearby city of Aktau, formerly Shevchenko, see Aktau. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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