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The Instruch (; ; ; ) is a river in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast. It begins northeast of Dobrovolsk and, along with the river Angrapa, forms the Pregolya near Chernyakhovsk.

Key facts

River.name
Instruch
River.mouth_location
Pregolya
River.subdivision_type1
Country
River.subdivision_name1
Russia

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The Instruch (; ; ; ) is a river in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast. It begins northeast of Dobrovolsk and, along with the river Angrapa, forms the Pregolya near Chernyakhovsk.

Prior to 1945, the river was part of German East Prussia. The town of Insterburg (now Chernyakhovsk) was named after the river's German name, Inster.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Instruch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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