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Königsberg ( German: [ˈkøːnɪçsbɛʁk] ⓘ, lit. 'King's mountain', Polish: Królewiec, Lithuanian: Karaliaučius, Russian: Кёнигсберг, romanized : Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
Jun 25, 2024 · History of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly the German city of Konigsberg. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. Formerly the capital of East Prussia, Kaliningrad was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Potsdam agreement.
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Königsberg was the easternmost large city in Germany until World War II. The city was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1944 and during the Battle of Königsberg in 1945; it was then captured by the Soviet Union on 9 April 1945. The Potsdam Agreement of 1945 placed it under Soviet administration.
Kaliningrad, or Königsberg, had been a part of the Teutonic Order, Duchy of Prussia (for nearly 200 years a Polish vassal), Kingdom of Prussia, and the German Empire for 684 years before the Second World War.
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...
Jul 7, 2016 · Kaliningrad – Russia’s military zone in the West. In the 19th century a system of fortifications was built around Königsberg (today’s Kaliningrad), the capital of East Prussia, with the aim of making the city impenetrable. This is how the “fortress city” came into being.
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May 17, 2021 · Seventy-five years ago, the East Prussian metropolis of Königsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city in the Soviet Union. Today, its heritage is contributing to the region’s rising...
