Polish-Soviet border

In 1921 , after the end of the Soviet-Polish war , the Treaty of Riga established the border between the Soviet republics of the RSFSR (also on behalf of the BSSR and the Ukrainian SSR ) and Poland. The Soviet-Polish border became the second (after the German, 1912 km.) Along the length of Poland’s border. The border guard was assigned to the Border Guard Corps (CPC) .

The de facto border ceased to exist after the entry of Soviet troops on the territory of Poland on September 17, 1939 and the signing of the Treaty of Friendship and the border between the USSR and Germany in Moscow on September 28 . De jure, the border was moved on February 6, 1946 on the basis of the Treaty between the USSR and Poland on the Soviet-Polish state border , signed on August 16, 1945 .

Description

The border began at the intersection of the borders of Latvia , Poland and the Soviet Union, located on the Dvina River and went west from Minsk , in an arc located between the Berezina and Pripyat rivers . Then she walked along the section between Mikashevichi (PR) and Zvyagel (Ukrainian SSR). Here the border began to go to the southwest through the Oster to the Zbruch River and further to its confluence with the Dniester , where the crossroads of the borders of the USSR, Poland and Romania were located .

The passage of the border was regulated in Appendix No. 1 (Complete final protocol of the passage of the state border between the USSR and the Party of Regions) to the treaty between the USSR and Poland, signed in Moscow on April 10, 1932 .

The new border of the USSR with Poland was originally defined by an agreement between the Government of the USSR and the Polish Committee for National Liberation (PKNO) , signed in Moscow on July 27, 1944 by Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov and Edward Osubka-Moravsky . For a number of reasons, this agreement was not legally binding. The topic of the future Soviet-Polish border was also discussed at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 . The line of the future border was confirmed in the final protocol signed by the members of the Big Three. Formal approval is contained in the Treaty between the USSR and the NDP on the Soviet-Polish state border , signed on August 16, 1945 and entered into force on February 6, 1946 ^[3] , on the basis of which the accession of the Eastern Crees to the USSR was legally confirmed. Border guarding was carried out by forces of Border Guard Forces (GP) units.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the former Soviet-Polish border was divided into borders between Poland and the countries that emerged on the site of the USSR - Russia , Ukraine , Belarus and Lithuania .

Border corrections in 1945-1990

• 1948 - correction of the border in Podolia and Galicia . Poland went to several localities. In the north - Novodzel , Tolche , Shimaki and Klimuvka , now part of the Forge Gmina , and in the south - Medyka , Sedliska , Yaksmanica and Serakosce .

• February 15, 1951 - exchanged territories of 480 km². In exchange for a plot in the area of ​​the Bug River near Sokal , Poland received the Ustrzyk-Dolny area .

• March 5, 1957 - the border was clarified on the territory of the former East Prussia in the Kaliningrad Bay and on the Baltic Spit .

• March 18, 1958 - the territorial waters in the Gdansk Bay were divided.

• July 17, 1985 - clarified the delimitation of territorial waters, the economic sphere and the continental shelf.

• June 30, 1990 - the point of intersection of the maritime borders of the economic zone and the continental shelf between Poland, the USSR and Sweden at the coordinates of 55 ° 52.788 'N and 18 ° 55.545' E. was established.

Description

The land frontier actually began on the Baltic Spit near the village of Nova Karchma (although for the first time they agreed to divide the spit only on March 5, 1957 ), crossed the Kaliningrad Bay and then went in a straight line to the north of the settlements of Branoeva , Bartoshytsya , Węgorzhevo , Goldap , through the Rominten Forest. , in the north-east of Suwalki in the vicinity of Gmina Wiżajny , crossed the valley of the Black Ganchi , went along the valley Svisloch , crossed the valley of the Narew , Bialowieza forest , walked in a straight line to the southwest, then along the Bug River , leaving the Soviet thoron Prirechny Brest , in the vicinity of Kryluva depart from the Bug and was virtually in a straight line to the southwest, crossing Pshemyshlskie gates , river valley Strwiąż east of Ustrzyki Dolne reached the valley of Sana , on it went until Uzhotskogo pass , we turn to the east and a few kilometers reached the rock Kremenets, where it intersected with the border of Czechoslovakia .

On the basis of agreements reached by the ministers of internal affairs, there were 10 crossing points on the Soviet-Polish border, all 10 rail, but at two points it was also possible to cross the border by road.