Ivangorod is a Russian town located in Leningrad Oblast on the River Narva. Until 1945 it was the part of the Estonian town of Narva. The fortress was built in 1492 on the initiative of Ivan III Vasilyevich, the Moscow prince. During several hundred years of its existence it changed hands: it was under the Swedish rule, then it was occupied by the army of Peter the Great and unlit the World War II it belonged to Estonia. On the other side of the river there is the Hermann Castle.
