Kaliningrad

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád); named for Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

1. An oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania.
2. A city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg.

   “As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.”