From: Peter Smaardijk
[mailto:smaardijk@yahoo.com]
Sent: 30. november 2001
20.19
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jan Krogh" <jakro64@y...>
wrote:
> Yesterday I visited Vistytis, a border town between Lithuania and
Russia's
> Kaliningrad district as we have discussed earlier in this
list.
Can you tell us what the situation is reg. the Lithuanian-Russian
border in Lake Vistytis? As far as I remember, Lithuania wanted an
equidistance border, but Russia wanted it all, so that the border
would
run along the Lithuanian shore. Has an agreement been reached?
Or is it
linked with the predicament this family is in?
According to the
enclosed map picture (from the earlier mentioned map) Lithuania has got somewhat
more of the lake than what they had during the Soviet occupation. The Soviet
republic's border seems to at this area to be identical to the former
German-Lithuanian border.
I
think the Lithuanian delegation let down the demand of a equidistance border
when they got sympathy from the Russian side on an adjustment of the border
inside Vistytis town.
It
is important to notice that after the coming border demarcation this street
still will be divided between the Russia and Lithuania. But then Russian
citizens will populate the Russian end and visa versa.
On
Oct. 24th 1997 [not in 1999 as I earlier wrote by a mistake] the Lithuanian and
the Russian delegations signed in Moscow a treaty on the Lithuanian -
Russian border demarcation. This agreement was signed by the Lithuanian
President on July 8th 1999, and ratificated by the Lithuanian parliament on Oct.
19th 1999. So far the Russian parliament has not yet ratificated this treaty,
and the former Soviet republic border still
excists.
According to the Lithuanian text of the describtion enclosed to the Oct.
24th 1997 agreement one can read the following (my shortened
translation):
"From the Lithuanian-Russian-Polish tripoint (border point
1987) the Lithuanian-Russian border starts, and goes 0,6 km straight
north-northwest towards point No. 1, at coordinates X=6028563;
Y=4616421.
From point No. 1 the state border line goes 1,5 km straight northwest
towards point No. 2 at coordinates X=6029669; Y=4615418, in the middle of a
small forrest.
From point No. 2 it goes in the middle of a ditch northwest towards point
No. 3, at the Vistytis lake's bank.
From point No. 3 the state border goes 6,5 km straight north-northwest
through the lake until point No. 4, which is 1,3 [km] south from the
Vistytis-Virbalis and Vistytis-Marivile road junction and at coordinates
X=6036738; Y=4612776.
From point No. 4 is goes 2,5 km straight northwest until point No. 5,
which is at Vistytis lake's bank, 0,15 km northeast from the Pisa river's bridge
and 0,1 km sourthwest from the closest street junction of the town of
Vistytis.
From point No. 5 the state border's line goes 0,08 km straight northwest,
further 0,28 km straight north-northeast until a ditch, further in the middle of
the ditch in northern direction along the eastern side of the forrest, at the
geodesic sign "208,2" and "143,0" until the junction of the ditch and Liepona
river which makes point No. 6."