Records of the family von Görschen by Horst Friedrich Ernst von Görschen, Cranz (now Zelenogradsk) 1933
Patrick White, a 1973 Nobel laureate, visited Cranz in the early 1930s "during the early stages of my love affair with Germany".
Zelenogradskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Zelenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as
Volker Lechtenbrink (born August 18, 1944 in Cranz, Germany now Zelenogradsk, Russia) is a German television actor and singer.