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Baltiysk (Балтийск, -1946 Pillau (German), Pilawa (Polish)) is a Russian sea port in the strait between Vistula Bay and Gdansk Bay, called Strait of Baltiysk on the territory of Kaliningrad Oblast with about 20,000 inhabitants. Baltiysk is the only year-round, ice-free port along the Russian Baltic Sea coastline. The town is a major naval base of the Russian Navy and a ferry port on the route to Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The city was likely founded as a village in Prusy (Prusy Wschodnie, Eastern Prussia) before XVII century.
During the war between Sweden and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the port was captured by Swedes. Gustavus Adolphus landed in the city with reinforcements for the Swedes on May 1626Events September 30 Nurhaci , chieftain of the Jurchens and founder of the Qing Dynasty dies and is succeeded by his son Hong Taiji. Spanish establish a trading colony on Taiwan. Peter Minuit, director of the New Netherland colony, begins a policy of "pur. After the ceasefire in AltmarkAltmark is a region in Germany, between Hamburg and Magdeburg, the northern third of Saxony-Anhalt (the districts of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel and Stendal). Landscape The region is rural and covered with forests. Most important towns are Salzwedel and Stenda (1629) the Swedes were given control of the city, which they retained for several more years.
The city was granted city rights in 1725Events February 8 Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. March 2 In London, night watchman finds a severed head by the Thames; it is later recogn.
During the Second World War it belonged to Nazi GermanyNazi Germany or the Third Reich commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933 1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of National Socialism with Adolf Hitler as dictator. The term Nazi is a short form of the German which had an U-boatOctober 1939. U-47 returns to port after sinking HMS Royal Oak''. The battlecruiser Scharnhorst is seen in the background. A U-boat is any of the German submarines of World War I and World War II, as well as the Austro-Hungarian submarines of World War I. training facility there. It was captured by the SovietThere are two main meanings to the word soviet Soviet (council) can mean a council of workers, a term that was used from the late Imperial Russia days. After the October Revolution, soviets (councils) became the main form of government at all levels: ente Red ArmyThis article is about the armed forces of the Soviet Union. See Red Army Faction for the German militant group; Japanese Red Army for the Japanese militant group; and People's Liberation Army for the Chinese Red Army. Red Army and RKKA are abbreviations f on 25th April 1945.
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