title: Once again about the citadel of the Kilia fortress
abstract: The Kilia stone citadel (in fact, New-Kilia, today Kilia, Ukraine), located on the left bank of the northern branch of the Danube, was the oldest and most protected part of the medieval defensive ensemble. Most likely, it was built by the Genoeses that had their own colony, ruled by consuls in the second half of the XIV century. In order to supplement the data on the Kilia citadel (which does not exist today), the author uses the Ottoman and Russian topographic, iconographic and graphic sources 