Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast
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Primorsk (Russian: Приморск, Finnish: Koivisto, Swedish: Björkö) is a coastal town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Population: 5,500 (2005 est.). It is located 137 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, at the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland, near Birch Islands, protected as a sea bird sanctuary.
The settlement was first attested in Russian chronicles as Beryozovskoe ("Birch Village") in 1268. After the Swedes annexed the region during the Third Swedish Crusade, they had the name translated as Björkö. The Russians retook the islands at the close of the Great Northern War in 1721. The town evolved in the 20th century as an outport for the city of Vyborg.
Primorsk is the site of the largest Baltic Sea oil terminal. It was developed by the Putin administration as a terminus of the Baltic Pipeline System at a cost of 2,000,000,000 US dollars. The terminal started to operate in December 2001, supplanting Ventspils and other foreign rivals within one year.[1]
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