Kotlin (island)
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| Waters | Gulf of Finland | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 1 ′ N , 29 ° 44 ′ E | |
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| length | 12.1 km | |
| surface | 15 km² | |
| Residents | 43.005 (October 14, 2010) 2867 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Kronstadt | |
Kotlin ( Russian Котлин , Finnish Retusaari ) is a Russian island in the Gulf of Finland , 30 km west of Saint Petersburg in the Baltic Sea . The Tolbaaken lighthouse at its westernmost tip marks the port approaches to the city .
The fortress city of Kronstadt is located on the island, which is connected to the St. Petersburg suburbs Lomonossow and Sestrorezk by the " Petersburger Damm ", a road embankment with a flood protection function .
At the foot of the fortress is the Kronstadt level , which served as a reference point for the former Eastern Bloc and, until 1993, also for the GDR and the new federal states .
See also
The island of Kotlin is also the namesake of the programming language Kotlin because the associated development department of the company JetBrains is based in Saint Petersburg.
Web links
- Kotlin (island) in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Janice J. Heiss: The Advent of Kotlin: A Conversation with JetBrains' Andrey Breslav ( en ) oracle.com. April 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2018: “A new statically typed language, Kotlin, named after a Russian island off the coast of St. Petersburg, where Kotlin's Andrey Breslav and the Kotlin team reside, has recently been getting attention. A brainchild of the highly lauded Czech software development company JetBrains [...] "