Seskar
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| Waters | Gulf of Finland | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ N , 28 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| surface | 6 km² | |
| Residents | approx. 10 1.7 inhabitants / km² |
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Seskar ( Russian Сескар , Finnish Seiskari , Swedish Seitskär ) is an island in the eastern Gulf of Finland . It belongs to Kingisepp Rajon in Leningrad Oblast in Russia and is 80 km west of Saint Petersburg .
history
In 1903 the Seiskari community was spun off from the Koivisto community . It belonged to the Finnish province of Viipuri and was in the South Karelia region . In 1939 the island had 688 inhabitants.
With the Peace of Moscow in 1940, the island became part of the Soviet Union . This change of area was only ratified after the Second World War .
Today, the island and the sea area west of the island belong to the border area of the Russian Federation, for which a special permit from the FSB is required to enter and navigate .
literature
- G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 313. (Russian)
- Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia 2007 . ProStar Publications, 2007, p. 7. ISBN 1-57785-879-4 . (English)
Web links
- Seskar on the website of the city of Kingissepp (English)
- The island on a nautical chart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Command No. 355 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the FSB of July 10, 2007 (Russian)
