Novobohorodytska Fortress, Military fortress in Samar, Dnipro, Ukraine.

Novobohorodytska Fortress is a 17th-century military stronghold that preserves remains of earthen ramparts, defensive ditches, and artillery emplacements across an expansive site. The ruins display the interconnected system of fortifications designed to command the surrounding territory.

A Dutch engineer established this fortification in the late 1600s as part of Russian territorial expansion toward southern waterways. The site was built atop an earlier settlement that had existed since the 1500s.

The fortress took its name from a wooden Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos built inside the walls, which was dismantled in 1798 and moved to the village of Odynkivka on the opposite bank of the Samara. The settlement around the fort was open to settlers from Ukraine and Muscovy, who were granted the right to trade in goods, honey and horilka, while the garrison was forbidden to wrong the Cossacks of Kodak, Severynivka and Zaporizhzhia.

The site is largely open to visit and features informational signage explaining the layout of the structures. Sturdy footwear is recommended since the terrain is uneven and remains are scattered across a large area.

Excavations led by Iryna Kovaliova since the early 2000s confirmed that the fortress stands on the site of the Cossack town of Samar. In 2005 archaeologists uncovered a Chernyakhiv culture settlement with a large metalworking centre beneath the fortress layers.