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Kaliningrad: passport
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Kaliningrad is the capital city of the
region with a long history. This city
was called Königsberg earelier and it
used to be the capital of East Prussia.
The city was founded in 1255 by
the Przemysl II Ottokar, the King of
Bohemia. Following the outcome of
the Second World War in 1945, the
decision was made at the Potsdam
conference to annex one-third of
East Prussia, along with the capital,
to the USSR. In 1946, Königsberg
City and its adjacent territory were
renamed as Kaliningrad City and the
Kaliningrad Region.
The total number of people living in
the city of Kaliningrad makes almost
half of a million (481 thousand).
The whole region has population of
slightly more than one million (1002
thousand people).
The time is GMT +2.
Large towns
Sovetsk (formerly Tilsit) –
41 000 people
Tchernyakhovsk (formerly Insterburg) –
37 000 people
Baltiysk (formerly Pillau) –
33 000 people
Gusev (formerly Gumbinnen) –
28 000 people
Resorts
Svetlogorsk (formerly Rauschen)
Zelenogradsk (formerly Cranz)
Yantarny (formerly Palmnicken)
Pionersky (formerly Neukuhren)
National Park «Curonian Spit»
(formerly Kurische Nehrung) –
UNESCO World Heritage site
Distance to some
European cities
Gdansk – 166 km
Warsaw – 383 km
Vilnius – 391 km
Riga – 391 km
Minsk – 573 km
Berlin – 625 km
Saint-Petersburg – 965 km
Amsterdam – 1 336 km
Stockholm – 1 337 km
Geography
Kaliningrad region is an exclave,
which does not have common
overland borders with the mainland
of Russia. The region borders
Poland in the south, Lithuania in
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