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5 unusual facts about Gdynia


Arzu Özyiğit

In 2009, she became trainer of the Turkey under-20 women's national basketball team that participated at the 2009 FIBA U20 championships held in Gdynia, Poland.

Florida Holocaust Museum

The museum houses an actual box car (from Gdynia, Poland) that transported victims of the Nazi regime to the concentration camps, which rests on original track.

PKP class ET42

The ET42's main role is hauling very heavy coal trains (up to 4,000 tonnes) along the routes leading from Silesia to the ports of Gdańsk and Gdynia.

Polish Navy

After World War II, on July 7, 1945, the new Soviet-imposed Communist government revived the Polish Navy with headquarters in Gdynia.

Stefan Liv

Liv was born in Gdynia, Poland, as Patryk Śliz, given to an orphanage in Gdańsk and adopted by a Swedish family around the age of two.


2012 Men's Junior European Volleyball Championship

The 2012 Men's Junior European Volleyball Championship is being held in Gdynia, Poland and Randers, Denmark from August 24 to September 2, 2012.

Andrzej Chyra

The largest role so far that brought him recognition was as Gerard Nowak in the 1999 film Debt (Dług) by Krzysztof Krauze, for which he was awarded the Best Actor award at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.

East Pomeranian Offensive

Gdynia was taken on 26 March 1945, its defenders and many civilians retreating to the headland at Oksywie, from where they were evacuated to the Hel Peninsula.

Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival

Most of the plays are performed on the theatre scenes of Gdańsk, Sopot, and Gdynia (Tricity).

Gdynia Film Festival

The Polish Film Festival awards the Golden Lion, which is different from the Golden Eagle, awarded at the Polish Film Awards and the Seattle Polish Film Festival (Seattle is the sister city of Gdynia).

German auxiliary cruiser Stier

After this operation was canceled, the now renamed Stier was modified into an auxiliary cruiser in April 1941, first at the Wilton shipyard Rotterdam and later at Oderwerke, Stettin, and Kriegsmarinewerft, in Gotenhafen (Gdynia).

Jan Bernard Szlaga

From 1947 to 1953 Szlaga attended elementary school in Gdynia and then went attended Collegium Leoninum in Wejherowo and Collegium Marianum in Pelplin.

Kazimierz Ostrowski

In 1934 Ostrowski left for Gdynia where together with his brother Zygmunt he painted signs and names of ships (among others SS Kościuszko and MS Batory).

Koleje Mazowieckie

Słoneczny from Warsaw to Gdynia, through Legionowo, Nasielsk, Iłowo, Gdańsk (only in summer, KM9 line, the name means Sunny)

Lech Bądkowski

A film "File "Inspirer"" was made about Bądkowski and was shown already on TV and amongst others in Gdańsk, Gdynia and Luzino, at the Lech Bądkowski Primary School.

MS Batory

After these incidents, she was withdrawn from the North Atlantic route, refurbished at Hepburn for tropic service, and sailed in August 1951 from Gdynia and Southampton to Bombay and Karachi, via Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, and Suez.

MS Stena Alegra

MS Stena Alegra is a RO-RO freight ferry owned by Stena RORO and operated by Stena Line, she currently serves between Gdynia and Karlskrona.

In May 2013 Stena Line announced that they were going to purchase the Norman Trader for their Gdynia to Karlskrona route, she headed by tow to Gdynia where she was refited and renamed the Stena Alegra in June 2013, on the 8 July 2013 she started operating on the Gdynia to Karlskrona route.

Olza

SS Olza, the first full-sea ship to be built at the Gdynia shipyard in the interwar years of the Second Polish Republic

PKP class OKl27

Four engines have survived: OKl27-10 in Skierniewice (as an exhibit), OKl27-26 in Warsaw Railroad Museum (as an exhibit), OKl27-27 in Gdynia (as an exhibit) and OKl27-41 in Chabówka.

Polish YMCA

Interwar period there was time of activity of supply organization, growth of amount of members, as well as stockpiling of property- solid headquarters of organization emerged in Kraków, Łódź, Warsaw and Gdynia.

Trasa Kwiatkowskiego

Eugeniusza Kwiatkowskiego (Trasa Kwiatkowskiego) – is a highway in Gdynia named after Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski linking the Port of Gdynia to the Tricity beltway (Obwodnica Trójmiejska) and therefore A1 motorway.

Viktor Lomidze

At the outbreak of the Polish Defensive War of 1939, on September 1, with other Polish warships, Gryf left the naval base at Gdynia for the Operation Rurka, a failed attempt to lay a minefield at the entrances to the Gdańsk Bay.


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