Bolshoi Tjuters
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| Waters | Gulf of Finland | |
| Geographical location | 59 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ N , 27 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| surface | 8.3 km² | |
| Residents | 436 (1939) 53 inhabitants / km² |
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Groß Tütters or Bolshoi Tjuters ( Russian: Большой Тютерс ; Finnish. Tytärsaari ; Estonian. Suur Tütarsaar ; Swedish. Tyterskär ) is a Russian island in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea .
The 8.3 km² island is located in the middle of the Gulf of Finland, 75 km from the Finnish coast with the town of Kotka , 20 km south-southeast of the Russian island of Gogland and about 40 kilometers north of the Estonian town of Kohtla-Järve . It belongs to the Leningrad Oblast . There are no permanent residents other than a lighthouse keeper .
Tütters, which was Finnish from 1807 to the Winter War or 1944, still had 436 inhabitants in 1939, who were relocated to mainland Finland in 1940 as a result of the Peace of Moscow . Their livelihoods were seals and fishing . During the German occupation (January 1942 to 1944) there was heavy mining .
The Finnish island name Tytärsaari means "daughter island". The sister island Maly Tjuters or Klein Tütters (~ 1.6 km²) is about twelve kilometers west-southwest.
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Since minefields, large amounts of ammunition, artillery, weapons, bunkers and vehicles were simply left behind at the end of the war and have not been cleared or defused to this day, entry to the island is prohibited. Nevertheless, looters and military collectors try to get to the island in order to illegally acquire material (ammunition, weapons, artillery, equipment).
