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Although formally the relationship of these lands with Poland stopped at the end of the 17th century, in practice the Polish element in Königsberg played a significant role for the next century, until the outbreak of World War II. Before the second half of the 19th century many municipal institutions (e.g. courts, magistrates) employed Polish ...
Local residents in Kaliningrad at "Immortal regiment", carrying portraits of their ancestors who fought in World War II The blessing of the Easter baskets in Kaliningrad Today the overwhelming majority of Kaliningrad's residents are Russians settled after 1945, and their descendants.
Coat of arms of Kaliningrad The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kaliningrad , Russia. The city was known as Königsberg ( Polish : Królewiec , Lithuanian : Karaliaučius ) prior to 1945 and Twangste prior to 1255.
Initially, at the end of World War II in 1945, the current southern border strip passed under Polish control with Polish administration organized in the towns of Gierdawy and Iławka, however, the area was eventually annexed by the Soviet Union and included within the Kaliningrad Oblast. [46]
Refugees from Königsberg fleeing to western Germany before the advancing Red Army in 1945. The incorporation of the Königsberg area of East Prussia to Russia became a stated war aim of the Soviet Union at the Tehran Conference in December 1943. [7] In 1945, at the end of World War II, the city was captured by the Soviet Union (see Battle of ...
Many heritage sites in Kaliningrad Oblast were damaged during World War II, or willfully destroyed in the postwar period by Soviet authorities. [1] A number of landmarks did survive, such as the gothic Königsberg Cathedral containing the tomb of Kant, or the Königsberg Stock Exchange building. [2]
The Baltic Military District (Russian: Прибалтийский военный округ (ПрибВО)) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Baltic states, formed shortly before the German invasion during World War II. After the end of the war the Kaliningrad Oblast was added to the District's control in 1946, and the ...
This category includes people with strong links—either by birth or by association—to Kaliningrad, Russia. Before World War II, it was called Königsberg and belonged to Germany. It also had been a capital of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, the Duchy of Prussia, and East Prussia.