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2 unusual facts about Rybachy, Kaliningrad Oblast


Heligoland trap

It was developed in 1957 by Janis Jakšisat under the leadership of Lev Belopolsky at the Rybachy Biological Station (formerly the Rossitten Bird Observatory) at Rybachy, Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia, on the Curonian Spit.

Johannes Thienemann

In 1901 he founded the bird observatory on the Curonian Spit at Rossitten, East Prussia (now Rybachy, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), where he carried out his ornithological work for the rest of his life, though retiring as director of the observatory in 1929.


Abschwangen massacre

Abschwangen (now Tishino, in Pravdinsky District) was a small village near Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia some 30 km south of Königsberg, today Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia and the scene of a massacre of German civilians in August 1914.

Baltiysky District

Baltiysky Administrative District, Kaliningrad, a former administrative district of the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast

Curonian Spit

The Teutonic Knights occupied the area in the 13th century, building their castles at Memel (1252), Neuhausen (1283), and at Rossitten (1372).

Gdańsk Bay

The bay is enclosed by a large curve of the shores of Gdańsk Pomerania in Poland (Cape Rozewie, Hel Peninsula) and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia (Sambian Peninsula).

Kaliningrad Oblast

As of 2014, there are plans to build two nuclear power reactors in the eastern part of the region.

Kaliningradsky

Kaliningrad Oblast (Kaliningradskaya Oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Niedrzwica

Niedrzwica (IPA ɲɛdʒˈvitsa) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gołdap, within Gołdap County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.

Nikolay Tsukanov

Nikolay Tsukanov was born in 1965 in the village of Lipovo, in the Gusev area of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

Patriots of Russia

Until 2011, the party had fractions in regional parliaments: the Kaliningrad region, Yaroslavl region, Republic of Dagestan, in the city of Kemerovo.

Rybachy

Rybachy, Russia (Rybachya, Rybachye), name of several rural localities in Russia

Sedmoi Kontinent

As of July 2010, the company had 121 supermarkets and 4 hypermarkets in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast, 10 supermarkets in Kaliningrad Oblast and one hypermarket in each of the following locations: Ryazan, Chelyabinsk, Minsk (Belarus), Perm, Belgorod and Yaroslavl.

Walther Funk

Funk was born into a merchant family in 1890 in Danzkehmen (present-day Sosnowka in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) near Trakehnen in East Prussia.


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