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Kaliningrad City Guide.




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Fast Facts
Area
215.7 km²
Population
430,003 

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General Informaiton

Kaliningrad (Russian: Калинингра́д; German: Königsberg) is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. The territory borders on NATO and EU members Poland and Lithuania, and is geographically separated from the rest of Russia.
As of the 2002 Census, its population was 430,003, an increase from the 401,280 recorded in the 1989 Census. Its ethnic composition consists of 77.9% Russians, 8.0% Belarusians , and 7.3% Ukrainians.[1]
Under its original German name of Königsberg, it was a capital of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, the Duchy of Prussia, and the German province of East Prussia. Before being renamed to Kaliningrad, it was briefly Russified as Kyonigsberg (Кёнигсберг).


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Sightseeing
  • Königsberg Cathedral
  • Sackheim Gate, Royal Gate and Brandenburg Gate (Königsberg)
  • Dom Sovyetov of Kaliningrad
  • Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Kaliningrad)
  • Kaliningrad Zoo (formerly: "Königsberg Tiergarten") and former Ostmesse locality
  • Ploshchad Pobedy (city centre)
  • Kant Russian State University (formerly: "Königsberg Albertina University", "Kaliningrad University")
  • old fortifications

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