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Vasilisin lighthouse tower

Four-stage square wooden tower with lantern and gallery, painted with black and white vertical stripes, on Vasilisin Island in Lake Onega. Archive specs: 24 m tower, 33 m focal plane, 8 mile visibility. Destroyed by ground fire circa 2011–2014.

At a glance

Tower height: 24 m

Evidence note

Strong photographic archive and family preservation project; loss dating and construction year remain approximate.

Source Evidence

Heritage Journey

Vasilisin

A Lost Light on Lake Onega

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Identity role

Root identityVasilisin
Root identity for the Vasilisin journey. This asset represents the destroyed four-stage striped wood tower on Vasilisin Island.

Direct relationships

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Current host
Ostrov Vasilisin, Lake Onega (destroyed)accepted
Destroyed
Ostrov Vasilisin2011 – 2014accepted
Archive sources say the Vasilisin lighthouse was destroyed by a ground fire on the island.
Installed at
Ostrov Vasilisinunknownaccepted
The Vasilisin wooden tower stood on Ostrov Vasilisin in Lake Onega; construction date is unknown in the archive.

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Story Projects

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Trust Depth Over Data Volume: An Independent Audit of LUX Light Archiveplace_cluster
La profondeur de confiance plutôt que le volume de données : un audit indépendant de LUX Light Archiveplace_cluster
Vasilisin As A Lost Lightlost_light_memory

Rights & Attribution

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Media Rights

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Attribution

"Vasilisin lighthouse tower" · LUX-ASSET-000626 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000626/

Citation

LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Vasilisin lighthouse tower", LUX-ASSET-000626, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000626/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.