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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.
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.
Polish and Lithuanian culture blossomed in Königsberg, ... [74] [75] In May 2023, Poland officially adopted a new name for the Kaliningrad region, ...
Królewiec may refer to: . The Polish name for Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (formerly Königsberg); The Polish name for Krolevets, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine; Królewiec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Initially, the current southern border strip passed under Polish control with Polish administration organized in the towns of Gierdawy and Iławka, however, the Polish administration was eventually expelled and the area was annexed by the Soviet Union and included within the Kaliningrad Oblast. [8] In 1946, the name of the city of Königsberg ...
25 August: The local Gestapo issued an arrest warrant for all Polish teachers in the region. [42] August–September: Persecution of Poles, incl. mass arrests of Polish students and arrests of local Polish consul Jerzy Warchełowski and attaché Witold Winiarski. [43] October: The Germans established a forced labour camp for Romani people. [44]
This is a list of currently and formerly inhabited localities in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, with their former names, where available, in German, Polish, and Lithuanian. After the northern half of the former German region of East Prussia was annexed to the Soviet Union as an exclave of the Russian SFSR in 1945, nearly all the old German ...
The border road near Nowa Karczma, Nowy Dwór Gdański County, July 2020. The modern Poland–Russia border is a nearly straight-line division between the Republic of Poland and the Russian Federation exclave Kaliningrad Oblast, a region not connected to the Russian mainland.