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2 unusual facts about Yasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast


Nesterovsky District

Near the settlement of Yasnaya Polyana, the former stable of the Trakehner horse breed is located, as well as a museum for the breed.

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.


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

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

Leon Pasternak

In the case of the Pasternaks the estates were in the vicinity of Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy's estate.

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.

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.


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