Amber Coast

The Sambia Peninsula, Bay of Gdańsk and Vistula Lagoon; the area of the "Amber Coast")
Open-pit mining near Jantarny (Sambia Peninsula, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
Different colours of Baltic amber.

The Amber Coast is the name given to a coastal strip of the Baltic Sea in the northwest of Kaliningrad (Russia, Kaliningrad Oblast, Sambia Peninsula, formerly northern East Prussia in Germany). In this area amber (Baltic amber) has been excavated since the mid-19th century and up to today in open-pit mining. Two deposits – Palmnikenskoe and Primorskoe, containing 80% of world amber reserves, were found near Yantarny on the Western coast of the Sambia Peninsula in 1948-1951’s.[1]

  1. ^ "The History of Russian Amber, Part 1: The Beginning", Leta.st