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ORP Orzeł (1986)
ORP ''Orzeł'' (291) is a Polish Navy 'Project 877E' () submarine. She is the third Polish submarine to bear ORP Orzeł, the name ''Orzeł'' (''Eagle''). The boat was built by the Shipyard Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112, Krasnoe Sormovo in Nizhny Novgorod, Gorky and was Ship commissioning, commissioned on 29 April 1986 at Riga. On 13 June of the same year ''Orzeł'' was transferred to Gdynia where she was named on 21 June. The submarine was assigned to the 3rd Ship Flotilla, 3rd Flotilla based in Gdynia. As of 2024, she is the oldest Kilo-class submarine in active service and the only operational submarine in the Polish Navy. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Orzel (1986) Kilo-class submarines of the Polish Navy Attack submarines Ships built in the Soviet Union 1986 ships Submarines of Poland Poland–Soviet Union relations Ships built by Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk. Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity, Poland, Tricity (''Trójmiasto'') with around one million inhabitants. Historically and culturally part of Kashubia and Pomerelia, Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia for centuries remained a small fishing village. By the 20th-century it attracted visitors as a seaside resort town. In 1926, Gdynia was granted city rights after which it enjoyed demographic and urban development, with a Modernist architecture, modernist cityscape. It became a major seaport city of Poland. In 1970, 1970 Polish protests, protests in and around Gdynia contributed to the rise of the Solidarność, Solidari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
