This is a list of current and historic lighthouses and lightvessels in Russia. On saltwater, Russia has had lighthouses on the Black Sea, on the Baltic Sea in the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, on the Gulf of Finland approaching St. Petersburg, on the Arctic Ocean (including a series of nuclear-powered ones), and on the Pacific Ocean. It has had lighthouses on freshwater of Lake Ladoga, on the Volga and Don Rivers, on the Caspian Sea, on Lake Baikal, in Siberia on the great Ob and Yenisey Rivers, and elsewhere.
Notable Russian lighthouses include:
| Name | Image | Water body | Region | Location | Year built | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anapa Lighthouse | Eastern Black Sea | Krasnodar Krai | Anapa | 1955 | An older lighthouse from 1909 was destroyed in 1943 during World War II.[1] | ||
| Aniva Lighthouse | Pacific Ocean | Sakhalin Oblast | Aniva Bay 46.019°N 143.414°W | 1939 | Japanese-built. [2] | ||
| Bryusa Lighthouse | Pacific Ocean | Primorsky Krai | 10 km east of Slavyanka | 1913[3] | |||
| Derbent Lighthouse | Caspian Sea | Dagestan | Derbent 42.0614°N 48.2958°W | 1 May 1853 | It is the southernmost lighthouse in Russia.[4] It is located in the center of the city and about half a kilometer from the coastline.[5] The lighthouse is included in the list of protected monuments of Russia and is included in the historical list of UNESCO. | ||
| Doob Point Lighthouse | Eastern Black Sea | Krasnodar Krai | Novorossiysk Bay | 1879 | |||
| Gelendzhik Lighthouse | Eastern Black Sea | Krasnodar Krai | Gelendzhik Bay | This lighthouse is located south of Gelendzhik. | |||
| Kabotazhnaya Gavan Rear Light | Gulf of Finland | St. Petersburg | Kronstadt | The tower serves as rear light in a range of leading lights for the Kronstadt naval station.[6] | |||
| Lesnoy Mole Rear Range Light | Gulf of Finland | St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg 59.8778°N 30.2164°W | At a height of 239feet it is the fourth tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world, the tallest in Russia, and the tallest leading light in the world. | |||
| Makhachkala Lighthouse | Caspian Sea | Dagestan | Makhachkala 42.9853°N 47.4989°W | 1852 | It is an operating lighthouse.Landmark of the city.[7] | ||
| Osinovetsky Light | Lake Ladoga | Leningrad Oblast | Kokorevo 60.1188°N 31.0804°W | 1905[8] | At a height of 230feet it is the eighth tallest "traditional" lighthouse in the world. It is a slightly shorter twin of Storozhenskiy Light. | ||
| Sommers | Eastern Gulf of Finland | Leningrad Oblast | Sommers skerry, Gulf of Vyborg 60.2°N 66°W | 1945 | The first lighthouse on this islet was built in 1808 and another one was erected in 1866. The latter lighthouse was destroyed by Finnish forces at the onset of the Winter War of 1939-40 and the personnel were evacuated.[9] After the 1944 peace treaty between Finland and the Soviet Union, the island of Sommers was given to the Soviets, who also constructed a new truss lighthouse. | ||
| Storozhenskiy Light | Lake Ladoga | Leningrad Oblast | Storozhno 60.5275°N 32.6217°W | 1907[10] | At a height of 233feet it is among the tallest lightouses in the world, and the fourth tallest stone lighthouse.[11] It is a twin of the slightly shorter Osinovetsky Light. | ||
| Styrsudden Lighthouse | Eastern Gulf of Finland | Leningrad Oblast | Ozerki 60.1858°N 29.0299°W | 1955 | The station was established in 1873. The historic lighthouse was destroyed during World War II and replaced by a temporary tower. 28 m (92 ft) round cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery, rising from a 1-story cement block base, was built in 1955.[12] | ||
| Sudzhukskiy Lighthouse | Eastern Black Sea | Krasnodar Krai | Western entrance to Novorossiysk Bay | ||||
| Svyatoy Nos | White Sea | Kola Peninsula | Svyatoy Nos, Murmansk Oblast | 1863 | This is Russia's oldest active lighthouse in the Arctic. The first steam-powered fog horn in Russia was installed at this site in 1872. The lighthouse was declared a national historic monument in 2002.[13] | ||
| Tolbukhin Lighthouse | Gulf of Finland | Leningrad Oblast | northwest off Kotlin Island | 1810 | Designed by Andreyan Zakharov, this is the oldest active lighthouse in north-western Russia. | ||
| Utrish Lighthouse | Eastern Black Sea | Utrish island southeast of Anapa | The station was established in 1911. The first lighthouse may date back to the 1920s but is apparently out of use and deteriorating. Another lighthouse has been installed on a nearby and hosts a memorial for fishermen killed in World War II. |