Polessk is a town in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, serving as the administrative center of Polessky District, 49 kilometers northeast of Kaliningrad at the junction of a main road and railway near where the Deyma River meets the Curonian Lagoon. Its population was 7,581 at the 2010 census.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude54.866667 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Polessk (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1258-00-00T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 6,876 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 54.866667, longitude 21.1
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 3 m
P2046 (area)
area 11.0 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 6876 (2025)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Polessk - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 507291
54.86205 21.10279 P PPLA2 RU 23 7835 3 Europe/Kaliningrad
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 3 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 54.75, 21.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 54.75, 21.25
54.75 21.25 Dfb
Polessk (Wikipedia)
- In Group: Cities of Eastern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
On Continent: Europe
Polessk (Russian: Полесск; German: Labiau; Lithuanian: Labguva; Polish: Labiawa) is a town and the administrative center of Polessky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located 49 kilometers (30 mi) northeast of Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast, at the junction of a main road and a railroad at the Deyma River, shortly before it enters the Curonian Lagoon.
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