The word Ostrog in Russian refers to a small fort that is frequently unmanned and made of wood. Palisade walls composed of sharpened tree trunks that were 4-6 meters high surrounded ostrogs. The phrase -- Strogat, which means -- to shave the wood in Russian, is where the name comes from. In contrast to the massive kremlins that served as the central hubs of Russian cities, ostrogs were more limited military fortifications. Ostrogs were frequently constructed inside major fortress lines, like the Great Abatis Line, or in isolated locations. The term Ostrog has been used to describe the forts built in Siberia by Russian explorers since the 17th century, when the Russian conquest of Siberia got underway. Later, many of these forts became sizable Siberian cities. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the term ostrog was frequently used to refer to a prison, and Siberian ostrogs later came to be associated with captivity
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