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The city was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 in honor of Russian Bolshevik leader Mikhail Kalinin. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it has been governed as the administrative centre of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, the westernmost oblast of Russia.
- Kaliningrad Oblast
Map of Kaliningrad Oblast Angrapa River. Kaliningrad is the...
- Königsberg Castle
Today, Kaliningrad is part of Russia. The centre square of...
- Church of The Holy Family
In the beginning of the 1980s the church underwent a minor...
- Talk
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- King's Gate
The King's Gate in 2017. The King's Gate (Russian:...
- Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate in Kaliningrad with a Tatra T4 tram in...
- House of Soviets
The unfinished shell of the building in 2002. The House of...
- Kaliningrad Railway
Kaliningrad Railway (Russian: Калининградская железная...
- Königsberg Cathedral
Modern view of the cathedral. Königsberg Cathedral (Russian:...
- Timeline of Kaliningrad
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- Kaliningrad Oblast
Apr 22, 2024 · Kaliningrad, city, seaport, and administrative centre of Kaliningrad oblast (region), Russia. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. Kaliningrad lies on the Pregolya River just upstream from Frisches Lagoon.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 17, 2024 · Kaliningrad, oblast (region), extreme western Russia. Most of the oblast is in the basin of the Pregolya River and its tributaries. Centred on Kaliningrad city, it was formed in 1945 from the northern half of German East Prussia, which was ceded to the U.S.S.R. by the Potsdam agreement of that year.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Kaliningrad is the second-largest city in the Northwestern Federal District, after Saint Petersburg, the third-largest city in the Baltic region and the seventh-largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is the westernmost Oblast of Russia.
Aug 14, 2019 · Russia's smallest oblast (region) of Kaliningrad is an exclave located 200 miles away from the border of Russia proper. Kaliningrad was a spoil of World War II, allocated from Germany to the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference that divided Europe between the allied powers in 1945.
Aug 22, 2023 · Kaliningrad is still of great strategic importance to Moscow. It houses the Russian Baltic Fleet at the port of Baltiysk and is the country's only ice-free European port. During the Soviet period ...
