Maxim Gorky Fortresses

Armoured Coastal Batteries No.30 and No.35
Armoured Coastal Batteries No.30 and No.35
Part of Soviet Union
Crimea
	Maxim Gorky II in 1941
Type	Coastal defence and fortifications
Site information
Controlled by	Soviet Union
Condition	Restored, mothballed (Maxim Gorky I); Damaged, museum (Maxim Gorky II);
Site history
Built	1912–1929
In use	1929–1997 (Maxim Gorky I); 1929–1943 (Maxim Gorky II);
Battles/wars	World War II
Events	Crimean Campaign; Siege of Sevastopol
Garrison information
Past; commanders	Georgy Aleksandrovich Alexander (Maxim Gorky I) (1941–1942); Alexei Yakovlevich Leshchenko (Maxim Gorky II) (1940–1942);
Occupants	Black Sea Fleet, Red Army

Armoured Coastal Batteries #30 and #35, commonly known in English as Maxim Gorky I and Maxim Gorky II, were coastal batteries used by the Soviet Union during the Crimean Campaign of World War II. The invading German forces nicknamed them after the famous Soviet author and political activist Maxim Gorky.