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Kaliningrad Photo Gallery – Reisebilder aus Königsberg; The Film Königsberg is dead, France/Germany 2004 by Max & Gilbert (in German and English) Territory's history from 1815 to 1945 (in German) Interactive Map with photos of Königsberg and modern Kaliningrad Archived 29 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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.
Map of Kaliningrad Oblast Angrapa River 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 ...
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.
A document from 1454 confirming the incorporation of the region to the Kingdom of Poland. The settlement was granted town rights in 1313. In 1440, the town was a founding member of the Prussian Confederation, which opposed Teutonic rule, [7] upon the request of which King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated the territory into the Kingdom of Poland in 1454. [8]
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]
Kneiphof became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. In the same year the three towns resisted the efforts of Burgfreiheit to form a proposed fourth town, Friedrichsstadt. By the Rathäusliche Reglement of 13 June 1724, King Frederick William I of Prussia merged Altstadt, Löbenicht, Kneiphof, and their respective suburbs into the united ...
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.