Yamskaya Tower Kolomna Kremlin, Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia
The Yamskaya Tower and the second fragment of the fortress wall were preserved on the east side of the Kremlin. The height of the tower is 24 meters, length – 12 meters, width – 8 meters. The thickness of the walls of the tower is 2.9 meters below, at the top 1.85 meters.
Inside there are 5 floors. One of the floors is buried underground. The tower was completed with the sixth tier – the gallery, its teeth, like the teeth of the walls, resembled the shape of a swallowtail. The height of the teeth is 2.5 meters, width – 1.44 meters. The tower ended with a four-tented roof.
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