Baltiisk

(until 1946, Pillau), a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, RSFSR, located on the Baltic sandbar; outer harbor of Kaliningrad, to which it is connected by a sea canal. There is a railroad station 48 km west of Kaliningrad. Population, 17,000 (1967). Baltiisk has a museum of the Baltic Fleet. The city was founded in 1686.