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Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate

Three ships have been ordered so far to be built by the "Yantar" shipyard in Kaliningrad.


Åland Islands Peace Institute

The Åland Islands Peace Institute has built a well-functioning network of non-governmental organisations in Lithuania, Belarussia and the Kaliningrad region (Russia).

Aleksandr Chistyakov

Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Chistyakov (b. 1980), Russian footballer with FC Baltika Kaliningrad, FC Zvezda Irkutsk and FC Nizhny Novgorod, among others

Bagrationovsky

Bagrationovskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Bagrationovsk in Bagrationovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Bagrationovsky District

Another line, the former East Prussian Southern Railway, connects Kaliningrad with Polish Bartoszyce via Bagrationovsk; however, passenger service was discontinued in 2011.

Baltiysky

Baltiyskaya Nuclear Power Plant, or Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant, a nuclear power plant under construction on the Neman River in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Baltiysky District

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

Chernyakhovsky

Chernyakhovskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Chernyakhovsk in Chernyakhovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Chistye Prudy

Chistye Prudy, Kaliningrad Oblast, a rural locality (a settlement) in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Dmitri Ivanov

Dmitri Yaroslavich Ivanov (b. 1994), Russian footballer with FC Baltika Kaliningrad

Evgeny Vinokurov

The role of the enclaves as a generator of conflicts between motherland and surrounding states (e.g., Britain and Spain in the case of Gibraltar, Russia and the European Union in the case of Kaliningrad, Spain and Morocco in the case of Ceuta and Melilla) is of particular interest.

Gabriele Lesser

As Warsaw-based correspondent of newspapers published in Germany (Taz-Berlin), Austria (Standard-Vienna), and Switzerland (Tages-Anzeiger-Zurich) she publishes regularly news, reportages, analysis about Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic Republics and the oblast Kaliningrad.

Gvardeysky

Gvardeyskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Gvardeysk in Gvardeysky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Institute of International Programs of PetrSU

By that time such centres had existed in Saint-Petersburg, Saratov, Kazan, Kaliningrad, at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Moscow State International Institute of International Relations and Moscow State University.

Kenig

Kenig or Kyonig is also the colloquial Russian name for Kaliningrad (formerly the German city of Königsberg, from which the nickname is derived)

King's Bounty

In 2007, the Russian game publisher 1C Company purchased the property rights to the King's Bounty franchise and attached the name to a title being developed by Katauri Interactive, a company located in Kaliningrad.

Krasnoznamensky

Krasnoznamenskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Krasnoznamensk in Krasnoznamensky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Louis Bruyas

Louis Bruyas (24 April 1738, Lyon - 14 June 1807, Friedland, now known as Pravdinsk, near Kaliningrad, Russia), stage and pen-name Bursay, was a French actor and playwright.

Micropterix gertraudae

It is only known from the single type specimen in Baltic amber, which has been mined at Palmnicken (now Yantarnyy) near Kaliningrad.

Nemansky

Nemanskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation, which the town of district significance of Neman in Nemansky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, is incorporated as

Nesterovsky

Nesterovskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Nesterov in Nesterovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Nesterovsky District

In Chernyshevskoye, an important border crossing point on the principal road connecting Kaliningrad to Moscow is located.

Our Lady of Kazan Orthodox Cathedral

The first stone of the temple was laid in November 2004 by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, (since 2009 the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church) following an agreement by the Cuban authorities with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Paul Butkevich

Paul Butkevich has taken part in approximately 150 movies and plays also outside the borderlines of Latvia, in his most active years it was common to travel twice a week or more to Dushanbe-Kaliningrad-Moskow-Sverdlovsk-Simferopol, he has even been awarded as an artist by Russian Federation.

Polessky

Polesskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Polessk in Polessky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Pravdinsky

Pravdinskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Pravdinsk in Pravdinsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Radio Königsberg

Radio Königsberg was originally produced at the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin, but moved to East Prussian Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) when the Allies started to bomb Berlin.

Rzhevsky

Rzhevskoye Microdistrict, a residential area of the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Sean Rooney

In the 2007–08 season, he played for Dinamo-Yantar in Kaliningrad, Russia.

Sergei Osipov

Sergei Vladimirovich Osipov (b. 1968), Russian footballer with FC Rubin Kazan and FC Baltika Kaliningrad, later manager

Sergei Yegorov

Sergei Viktorovich Yegorov (born 1973), Kazakhstani footballer who played for FC Bolat, FC Shakhter Karagandy, FC Energia Kamyshin, FC Uralan Elista, FC Baltika Kaliningrad and FC Anzhi Makhachkala

Sergei Gennadyevich Yegorov (born 1983), Russian footballer with FC Arsenal Tula, FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast and FC Baltika Kaliningrad

Seven Bridges of Königsberg

The city of Königsberg in Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands which were connected to each other and the mainland by seven bridges.

Slavsky

Slavskoye, Russia, a rural locality (a settlement) in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Slavskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Slavsk in Slavsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Snaigė

AB Snaigė (literally: snowflake) is a Lithuanian industrial company and the only producer of refrigerators in the Baltic countries, with manufacturing plants in Alytus and Kaliningrad (Russia).

Sovetsk

Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia: formerly named Tilsit

St. Adalbert's Church

St. Adalbert's Church, Königsberg, former Roman Catholic Church in Königsberg, Germany, now used as a laboratory in Kaliningrad, Russia

Stanisław Murzynowski

Stanisław Murzynowski (born 1527/8 in the village of Suszyce, died 1553 in Königsberg (Królewiec, today Kaliningrad)) was a Polish writer, translator and a Lutheran activist during the Protestant Reformation.

Statistical geography

One of the first papers in topology was the demonstration, by Leonhard Euler, that it was impossible to find a route through the town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) that would cross each of its seven bridges exactly once.

Strait of Baltiysk

The strait is the shipping connection from the open sea to the important Russian ports of Baltiysk and Kaliningrad in the northeastern lagoon, as well as to the Polish ports of Elbląg, Braniewo, Tolkmicko, Frombork, Sztutowo, Krynica Morska, and Nowa Pasłęka in the southeastern lagoon.

Svetlogorsky

Svetlogorskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Svetlogorsk in Svetlogorsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Vitali Safronov

In the summer of 1999 and moved from the "Wings" to the club First Division "Baltika" Kaliningrad, where he was offered a lucrative contract.

Yantar-2K

The film type is unknown but might be the same as in the Zenit, which had 300mm x 300mm frames.

Yastreb-class guard ship

Similarly the three ships launched, but not completed by the end war, at the Zhandov Shipyard in Leningrad were towed to the former Schichau-Werke shipyard in Kaliningrad for completion.

Yuri Matochkin

Matochkin succeeded in restoring Kaliningrad's special economic zone advantages in January 1996, and also secured the region's first major foreign investment, an agreement with the automobile manufacturer Kia.

Zelenogradsky

Zelenogradskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Zelenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as


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