Ust-Luga

Ust-Luga (, Finnish and Izhorian: Laukaansuu, ; all meaning in ) is a settlement and railway station in Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, near the Estonian border, situated on the Luga River near its entry into the Luga Bay of the Gulf of Finland, about west of Saint Petersburg.

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Settlement.official_name: Ust-Luga
Settlement.native_name: Усть-Луга
Settlement.image_shield: Герб Усть-Лужского сельского поселения.gif
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Ust-Luzhskoe (Leningrad oblast).png
Settlement.image_skyline: Ust Luga village.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Ust-Luga, 2022
Settlement.pushpin_map: Russia Leningrad Oblast#Russia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Russia
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Leningrad Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Kingiseppsky District
Settlement.utc_offset1: +3:00

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Population: 2179
Dialing code: 81375

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postal code: 188477
Commons category: Ust-Luga
time of earliest written record: 1571-00-00

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Port of Ust-Luga
Population
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==Port of Ust-Luga== Ust-Luga is the site of an important coal and fertiliser terminal. Constructed at a cost of $2.1 billion, work started in 1997, in part to avoid having to ship dry cargo via the newly independent Baltic states, and was accelerated at the urging of President Vladimir Putin, who inaugurated the new port facilities in 2001. The approach channel is capable of accommodating ships with a capacity of 150,000 tonnes and more. In May 2008, Putin confirmed that Ust-Luga would be the terminal of the projected Second Baltic Pipeline, an oil transportation route bypassing Belarus.