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 | | Baltiysk (Балтийск) – known prior to 1945 by its German name, Pillau (Polish Piława, Lithuanian Piliava)– 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, along with Kaliningrad, one of two year-round, ice-free ports 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. |
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