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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, 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.
Russians in the Baltic states is a broadly defined subgroup of the Russian diaspora who self-identify as ethnic Russians, or are citizens of Russia, and live in one of the three independent countries — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — primarily the consequences of the USSR's forced population transfers during occupation.
Saint Petersburg, [c] formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, [d] is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, [4] with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area.
Al-Masudi, an Arab historian, geographer and traveler, equates the paganism of the Slavs and the Rus' with reason: . There was a decree of the capital of the Khazar khaganate, and there are seven judges in it, two of them from Muslims, two from the Khazars, who judge according to the law of Taura, two from the Christians there, who judge according to the law of Injil, one of them from the ...
A number of young adherents of the Slavic Native Faith have been detained on terrorism charges in Russia; [176] between 2008 and 2009, teenaged Rodnovers forming a group called the Slavic Separatists conducted at least ten murders and planted bombs across Moscow targeting Muslims and non-ethnic Russians.
Yarovit is a Polabian god mentioned in the Life of St. Otto, where a festival dedicated to him is described, for which the city was decorated. From the description and etymology, it is clear that he is a war god, and his temple contained a gold adorned shield. According to many researchers, Yarovit is identical to the East Slavic Yarylo. [32 ...
The Baltic sea urban areas seen from space. Spit of Vasilyevsky Island, in Saint Petersburg, Russia House of the Blackheads (Riga), Latvia Klaipėda, Lithuania Darłowo Riddarholmen in Stockholm, Sweden Ystad, Sweden Szczecin, Poland The medieval Turku Castle, Turku, Finland Lighthouse in Kołobrzeg, Poland Neptune fountain in Gdańsk, Poland Eldena Abbey, Greifswald, Germany Ruin of St. Peter ...
They ultimately gave their name to Russia and Belarus, and they are relevant to the national histories of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Because of this importance, there is a set of alternative so-called " anti-Normanist " views that are largely confined to a minor group of Eastern European scholars.