Powiat Suwalski

Powiat Suwalski
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Podlaskie
County town :	Suwałki
Area :	1,307.31 km 2
Residents :	35,907 (June 30, 2015)
License plate :	BSU
Circle structure
Municipalities :	0
Urban and rural communities :	0
Rural communities :	9
Starostei (Stand:)
Starost :	Szczepan Ołdakowski
Address:	ul. Noniewicza 10 ; 16-400 Suwałki
Website :	www.powiat.suwalski.pl/

The powiat Suwalski is a powiat (district) in the Polish Podlaskie Voivodeship . The powiat has an area of 1307.31 km², on which about 36,000 inhabitants live.

history

From 1939 to 1945 the area of the Powiat as the German district of Sudauen was part of the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the province of East Prussia .

In the 21st century, after the Crimean crisis, the term "Suwalki Gap" ( Suwalki gap ) came up; Similar to how the Fulda Gap was viewed as a gateway for Russian troops to the west during the Cold War , military strategists now see the land connection to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad through Suwalski as a neuralgic point.

Communities

The powiat comprises nine rural communities :

Footnotes

↑ population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2015. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (ZIP folder with XLS files; 7.82 MiB), accessed on May 28, 2016 .
↑ http://bialystok.stat.gov.pl/vademecum/vademecum_podlaskie/portrety_powiatow/powiat_suwalski.pdf
↑ "The port city of Kaliningrad has long bristled with thousands of Russian troops and advanced weapons, while Belarus recently agreed to house a large Russian air base, making the Suwalki area a small vulnerable land bridge increasingly squeezed by Russian hardware." ( Http: //foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/29/fulda-gap-nato-russia-putin-us-army/ )
↑ US General Ben Hodges relates the danger specifically to Russian lightning maneuvers: “You get thousands of Russian troops in exercises on both ends of the Suwalki Gap, and now everybody's in the field ... They have equipment - so there's a potential for them to transition from an exercise to an operation. " - NBC News, Dec 7, 2015

[1] population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2015. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (ZIP folder with XLS files; 7.82 MiB), accessed on May 28, 2016 .

[2] ttp://bialystok.stat.gov.pl/vademecum/vademecum_podlaskie/portrety_powiatow/powiat_suwalski.pdf

[3] "The port city of Kaliningrad has long bristled with thousands of Russian troops and advanced weapons, while Belarus recently agreed to house a large Russian air base, making the Suwalki area a small vulnerable land bridge increasingly squeezed by Russian hardware." ( Http: //foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/29/fulda-gap-nato-russia-putin-us-army/ )

[4] US General Ben Hodges relates the danger specifically to Russian lightning maneuvers: “You get thousands of Russian troops in exercises on both ends of the Suwalki Gap, and now everybody's in the field ... They have equipment - so there's a potential for them to transition from an exercise to an operation. " - NBC News, Dec 7, 2015