Vistula Lagoon

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Vistula Lagoon

 

an inlet of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in Kaliningrad Oblast, RSFSR, and Poland. It is approximately 90 km long and 2-25 km wide with a depth of 3-5 m. The lagoon is separated from the sea by the narrow, sandy Baltic spit (Vistula Spit), which is up to 60 km long. In the north the Vistula Lagoon is connected with the Gulf of Gdańsk by a strait whose width extends up to 860 m. The lagoon’s ports include Baltiisk (on the shore of the strait) and Kaliningrad.

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