28 Facts About Gdynia

Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast.

In 1926, Gdynia was granted city rights after which it enjoyed demographic and urban development, with a modernist cityscape.

In 1970, protests in and around Gdynia contributed to the rise of the Solidarity movement in nearby Gdansk.

Port of Gdynia is a regular stopover on the cruising itinerary of luxury passenger ships and ferries travelling to Scandinavia.

Gdynia's downtown, designated a historical monument of Poland in 2015, is an example of building an integrated European community and includes Functionalist architectural forms.

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In 2013, Gdynia was ranked by readers of The News as Poland's best city to live in, and topped the national rankings in the category of "general quality of life".

Administratively, Gdynia was located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in the province of Royal Prussia in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland and later of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In 1772, Gdynia was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in the First Partition of Poland.

Around that time Gdynia was so small that it was not marked on many maps of the period: it was about halfway from Oksywie and Maly Kack, now districts of Gdynia.

Decision to build a major seaport at Gdynia village was made by the Polish government in winter 1920, in the midst of the Polish–Soviet War .

Construction of Gdynia seaport started in 1921 but, because of financial difficulties, it was conducted slowly and with interruptions.

In 1938 Gdynia was the largest and most modern seaport on the Baltic Sea, as well as the tenth biggest in Europe.

In 1938 the Gdynia shipyard started to build its first full-sea ship, the Olza.

Some Poles from Gdynia were executed by the Germans near Starogard Gdanski in September 1939.

The port of Gdynia was one of the three Polish ports through which refugees of the Greek Civil War reached Poland.

Climate of Gdynia is an oceanic climate owing to its position of the Baltic Sea, which moderates the temperatures, compared to the interior of Poland.

Gdynia's dzielnicas include: Babie Doly, Chwarzno-Wiczlino, Chylonia, Cisowa, Dabrowa, Dzialki Lesne, Grabowek, Kamienna Gora, Karwiny, Leszczynki, Maly Kack, Obluze, Oksywie, Orlowo, Pogorze, Pustki Cisowskie-Demptowo, Redlowo, Srodmiescie, Wielki Kack, Witomino-Lesniczowka, Witomino-Radiostacja, Wzgorze Sw.

Gdynia holds many examples of early 20th-century architecture, especially monumentalism and early functionalism, and modernism.

The central axis of Gdynia is built around 10 Lutego Street, Kosciuszka Square and the Southern Pier.

Architecture of central Gdynia was inspired by the work of European architects such as Erich Mendelssohn and is sometimes compared to the White City of Tel Aviv.

The center of Gdynia has become a symbol of modernity, but was included in the list of historical monuments of Poland and is a candidate for the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Since 2003 Gdynia has been hosting the Open'er Festival, one of the biggest contemporary music festivals in Europe.

In 2008, Gdynia made it onto the Monopoly Here and Now World Edition board after being voted by fans through the Internet.

Gdynia occupies the space traditionally held by Mediterranean Avenue, being the lowest voted city to make it onto the Monopoly Here and Now board, but the smallest city to make it in the game.

The unexpected success of Gdynia can be attributed to a mobilization of the town's population to vote for it on the Internet.

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An abandoned factory district in Gdynia was the scene for the survival series Man vs Wild, season 6, episode 12.

Gdynia is sometimes called "Polish Roswell" due to the alleged UFO crash on 21 January 1959.

Conurbation's main airport, Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport, lays approximately 25 kilometres south-west of central Gdynia, and has connections to approximately 55 destinations.