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The following is a list of people associated with the former city of Königsberg (Duchy of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany) which was renamed to Kaliningrad, Soviet Union in 1946. Writing and public thinking
Königsberg (/ ˈ k ɜː n ɪ ɡ z b ɜːr ɡ /, German: [ˈkøːnɪçsbɛʁk] ⓘ; lit. ' King's mountain '; Polish: Królewiec; Lithuanian: Karaliaučius; Baltic Prussian: Kunnegsgarbs; Russian: Кёнигсберг, romanized: Kyónigsberg, IPA: [ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbʲɪrk]) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
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.
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, 663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon, and the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
Location of Kaliningrad Oblast in Europe Kaliningrad Oblast on the map of Russia. The Kaliningrad question [a] is a political question concerning the status of Kaliningrad Oblast as an exclave of Russia, [1] and its isolation from the rest of the Baltic region following the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. [1]
In 1824, shortly before its merger with West Prussia, the population of East Prussia was 1,080,000 people. [31] According to Karl Andree , Germans were slightly more than half of the people, while 280,000 (~26%) were ethnically Polish and 200,000 (~19%) were ethnically Lithuanian . [ 32 ]
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.
Kaliningrad Oblast (from 1945) Berlin and Brandenburg (1947–1952, from 1990) Old Prussians , Baltic Prussians or simply Prussians [ 1 ] were a Baltic people that inhabited the region of Prussia , on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula Lagoon to the west and the Curonian Lagoon to the east.