The director of the Curonian Spit National Park was detained in the Kaliningrad region

Anatoly Kalina, director of the Curonian Spit National Park in the Kaliningrad Region, was detained by representatives of law enforcement agencies, a source told Izvestia on January 14.

The Curonian Spit is a narrow sandy strip of land between the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Its length from the Kaliningrad Peninsula to the Lithuanian Klaipeda is 98 km (the Russian part is 48 km), its width ranges from 400 m to 3.8 km. The dunes of Kos are one of the highest in Europe (up to 60 m). Up to half a million tourists visit the national park every year.

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