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Kaliningrad, [a] known as Königsberg [b] until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland.The city sits about 663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia.
City renamed Kaliningrad after Bolshevik Mikhail Kalinin. City becomes seat of the newly formed Kaliningrad Oblast. Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Arts founded. Kaliningradskaya Pravda newspaper begins publication. [33] 1947 – Kaliningrad Regional Drama Theatre established. 1954 – Pishchevik Kaliningrad football club formed.
Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 after the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Kalinin, although Kalinin was unrelated to the city, and there were already cities named in honour of Kalinin in the Soviet Union, namely Kalinin (now Tver) and Kaliningrad (now Korolev, Moscow Oblast).
Kaliningrad is the only Russian Baltic Sea port that is ice-free all year and hence plays an important role in the maintenance of the country's Baltic Fleet. The oblast is mainly flat, as the highest point is the 230 m (750 ft) Gora Dozor hill near the tripoint of the Poland–Russia border / Lithuania–Russia border .
Pages in category "History of Kaliningrad" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was born on 19 November 1875 to a peasant family of ethnic Russian origin in the village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa (Верхняя Троица), Tver Governorate, Russia. [4] He was the elder brother of Fedor Kalinin .
A fence runs along the Lithuanian border with the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad. Earlier this year, sources of interference were located near St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, and Pskov. Sean Gallup
On December 31, 1757, Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issued a ukase about the incorporation of Königsberg into Russia. [2] On January 24, 1758, the leading burghers of Königsberg submitted to Elizabeth. [3] Five Imperial Russian general-governors administered the city during the war from 1758–62; the Russian army did not abandon the town ...