Sharing its name with an ex-Soviet state, which cruise ship sank in the Baltic Sea in September 1994 claiming 852 lives?
Baltic Sea of the Baltic states and Poland, the Baltic Sea has been almost entirely surrounded by countries of the European Union (EU). The only remaining non-EU shore areas are Russian: the Saint Petersburg area and the exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast. Winter storms begin arriving in the region during October. These have caused numerous shipwrecks, and contributed to the extreme difficulties of rescuing passengers of the ferry "M/S Estonia" en route from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden, in September 1994, which claimed the lives of 852 people. Older, wood-based shipwrecks such as the "Vasa" tend to remain well-preserved, as the Baltic's
Soviet submarine Baltic Sea campaign in 1943 penetrate the blockade. The Finnish minelayers Ruotsinsalmi and Riilahti has been actively engaged in the campaign, sinking one submarine each. On 23 August 1943, during another anti-submarine patrol, Riilahti was sunk by soviet motor torpedo boat TK-93. No Soviet attempt to break the Axis blockade achieved success: no ship was sunk by Soviet submarines in the Baltic Sea during 1943, making the outcome of the offensive a decisive Axis success. Soviet submarine Baltic Sea campaign in 1943 The Soviet submarine Baltic Sea campaign in 1943 was launched by the Soviet Navy to harass the strategic iron ore traffic from neutral