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Kaliningrad

Also known as Königsberg, Twangste, Tuwangste, Tuwangeste, Twankste, Twongst, Twoyngst

Stadt in Russland, ehemals Ostpreußen

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Kaliningrad is Russia's only ice-free port on the Baltic Sea, located in an isolated Russian territory wedged between Lithuania and Poland rather than connected to the rest of Russia. The city matters strategically because it provides Russia year-round access to Baltic shipping and is a major regional center, making it one of the largest cities on the Baltic Sea with nearly 490,000 residents.

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Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Kaliningrad
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Калининград
Russian inhabited locality.pushpin_map: Europe#Russia
Russian inhabited locality.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Kaliningrad in Europe##Location of Kaliningrad in Russia
Russian inhabited locality.pushpin_relief: yes
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Kaliningrad.svg
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of arms of Kaliningrad.svg
Russian inhabited locality.coa_caption: Coat of arms
Russian inhabited locality.holiday: 4 July; observed on the first Saturday of July
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Kaliningrad Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_inhabloc_jur: city of oblast significance of Kaliningrad
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1: Kaliningrad Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2: city of oblast significance of Kaliningrad
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: City
Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur: Kaliningrad Urban Okrug
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1: Kaliningrad Urban Okrug
Russian inhabited locality.leader_title: Head
Russian inhabited locality.representative_body: City Council of Deputies

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Named after: Ottokar II of Bohemia
Official name: Karaliaučius
Award: Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Country: Russia
Located in: Province of Prussia
Contains: Tsentralny Administrative District
Population: 360577
Area: 224.7
Elevation: 5
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Body of water: Pregolya
Follows: Königsberg
Official website: www.klgd.ru
Image: Old cathedral of Kaliningrad in Russia.jpg
Dialing code: 4812
Licence plate code: 39
Coat of arms: coat of arms of Kaliningrad

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twinned administrative body: Catania
postal code: 236000
P6482: Kaliningrad
Commons category: Kaliningrad
topic's main category: Category:Kaliningrad
Commons gallery: Калининград
inception: 1255-00-00
category for people born here: Category:Births in Kaliningrad
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Kaliningrad
category of associated people: Category:People from Kaliningrad
maximum temperature record: 36.5
permanent duplicated item: Königsberg
native label: Кёнигсберг
category for people buried here: Category:Burials in Kaliningrad
replaces: Königsberg
P8168: Veckring
described at URL: www.meyersgaz.org/place/11035003
different from: Kaliningrad Oblast
nickname: Ворота в Россию
IPA transcription: kəˈlɪnɪnɡɹæd
P12749: Svratka

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Kaliningrad [kaˈliːniːnɡʀaːt] (seit 1946 russisch Калинингра́д [kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat], bis 1946 Königsberg) ist die Hauptstadt der Oblast Kaliningrad. Die vormals deutsche Hauptstadt Ostpreußens wurde im Ergebnis des Zweiten Weltkrieges von der Sowjetunion unter dem Namen Kaliningrad russifiziert und Bestandteil der Russischen Sowjetrepublik. Benannt ist sie nach dem 1946 verstorbenen sowjetischen Staatsoberhaupt Michail Kalinin. Seit der Unabhängigkeit der baltischen Staaten 1991 ist die Oblast Kaliningrad – von der Erreichbarkeit über die internationalen Gewässer der Ostsee abgesehen – eine Exklave Russlands zwischen Polen und Litauen. Die Stadt ist Verkehrsknotenpunkt sowie Wirtschafts- und Kulturzentrum mit Universitäten, Hochschulen, Forschungsinstituten, Theatern und Museen. Kaliningrad hatte bei der letzten Volkszählung (14. Oktober 2010) 431.902 vorwiegend russische Einwohner.

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