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Gdańsk (Polish , is the sixth-largest city in Poland. Situated in the north of the country, it is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is also the largest city of the Cassubia region, however, through centuries it has forgotten about its "cassubianity" due to development and changes the city has been always experiencing because of its (...)

The SS ''Sołdek'' was a Polish coal and ore freighter ship. She was the first ship built in Poland after World War II and the first sea-going ship completed in Poland. She was the first of twenty nine ships classed as Project B30, built in 1949 - 1954 in Stocznia Gdańska (Gdańsk Shipyard). The name was given in honour of Stanisław Sołdek, one of the shipyard's prominent workers (...)

: Societas Physicae Experimentalis, Polish: Gdańskie Towarzystwo Przyrodnicze) was founded in 1743 in the city of Danzig (Gdańsk), in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The ''Societas Physicae Experimentalis'' (Experimental Physics Society), later renamed to ''Naturforschende Gesellschaft'' (Nature-research-conducting Society), is thus considered as one of the oldest research societies in (...)