Abbasabad (fortress)

Abbasabad (Persian: عباس‌آباد) was a fortress of strategic importance for the defense of the Nakhichevan Khanate.

[1] It was built with the help of French engineers by Abbas Mirza, the crown prince of Iran, in 1810.

[2] He appointed Ehsan Khan Kangarlu as commander of the fortress in 1827, during the Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828.

During a siege by the Russians, Ehsan Khan secretly arranged for the gates of the fortress to be opened to the Russian commander General Ivan Paskevich on 22 July 1827.

[1] During the Russian rule the fortress was abandoned and fell into ruin.

The attack plan on the Abbasabad Fortress by General Paskevich in 1827