Kinburn

Kinburn, or KILBURN, a former fort of south Russia, situated opposite Otchakoff, on a long narrow sandbank which forms the southern boundary of the estuary of the Dnieper. Paul Jones first suggested to Suvaroff that it should be fortified; it figured prominently in the Russo-Turkish wars of 1771-74 and 1787; and during the Crimean war it fell before the allies, October 17, 1855. The fortifications were razed in 1860.