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May 17, 2023 · After the Allies transferred Königsberg to the Soviet Union, the name of the enclave was changed from Königsberg to Kaliningrad in 1946. The renaming was in honor of Mikhail Kalinin (1875-1946), the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Jun 25, 2024 · The new city—renamed Kaliningrad in 1946—was rebuilt and centred in what had been Königsberg’s northwestern suburbs and became a major industrial and commercial centre, connected by a 20-mile (32-kilometre) dredged channel to an outport and naval base along the Baltic called Baltiysk.
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Modern-day Kaliningrad was renamed, rebuilt and Russian-repopulated starting in 1946 in the ruins of Königsberg, of which only Lithuanian inhabitants were allowed to remain. Meanwhile, the German population was expelled, in effect creating a new city.
It was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946, in honour of Soviet Communist functionary Mikhail Kalinin. The city's historic centre was subsequently demolished by the Soviet government. It is now the capital of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave bordered in the north by Lithuania and in the south by Poland.
May 10, 2023 · For hundreds of years before World War Two, the area was known as Königsberg and was part of East Prussia. Królewiec is the Polish translation of Königsberg. However, after World War Two, the...
How the city founded by the Prussians became a Russian enclave in the Baltic, why Russians need Kaliningrad, and whether it could start a war between Russia and NATO - read in RBC-Ukraine...
In 1946, Königsberg was officially renamed Kaliningrad in honor of Mikhail Kalinin, a Soviet revolutionary figure. The city and surrounding territory became a Soviet enclave, physically ...
