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Kaliningrad (Rusisht: Калининград) është qytet në Rusi i cila ndodhet mes Polonisë dhe Lituanisë në Detin Baltik. Ishte Kënigsberg ose Konigsberg gjermane. Sipas regjistrimit të popullsisë më 2016, qyteti ka pasur 459.560 banorë.
The Russian football club FC Baltika Kaliningrad is based in Kaliningrad and plays in the Russian Football National League. The home stadium is the Kaliningrad Stadium, built for the 2018 FIFA World Cup . During 2006 to 2013, the Dynamo-Yantar men's volleyball club played in the Russian men's volleyball Championship.
Apr 22, 2024 · Formerly German (1255–1946): Königsberg. Polish: Królewiec. Königsberg Cathedral, Kaliningrad, Russia. Kaliningrad, city, seaport, and administrative centre of Kaliningrad oblast (region), Russia. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation.
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May 17, 2024 · Kaliningrad, oblast (region), extreme western Russia. Most of the oblast is in the basin of the Pregolya River and its tributaries. Centred on Kaliningrad city, it was formed in 1945 from the northern half of German East Prussia, which was ceded to the U.S.S.R. by the Potsdam agreement of that year.
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The territory of what is now the Kaliningrad Oblast used to be inhabited by the Old Prussians and other Western Balts, prior to the Teutonic conquest in the early Late Middle Ages. The Old Prussians became extinct due to Germanisation in the first half of the 18th century. The Lithuanian-inhabited areas of the Teutonic State were known as Lithuania...
Kaliningrad is the only Russian Baltic Seaport that is ice-free all year and hence plays an important role in the maintenance of the country's Baltic Fleet. The oblast is mainly flat, as the highest point is the 230 m (750 ft) Gora Dozor hill near the tripoint of the Poland–Russia border/Lithuania–Russia border. As a semi-exclave of Russia, it is s...
Anton Alikhanovhas been governor of Kaliningrad Oblast since 2017. The most recent elections to the region's legislative body, the 40-seat Kaliningrad Oblast Duma, were held in September 2021.
Population
As of the 2021 census, the population of the oblast was 1,027,678. Earlier censuses recorded a population of 955,281 in 2002 and 871,283 in 1989.
Ethnic groups
According to the 2021 census, the ethnic composition of the oblast was as follows: 1. 809,546 Russians(78.6%) 2. 12,515 Ukrainians(1.2%) 3. 11,360 Belarusians(1.1%) 4. 8,379 Armenians(0.8%) 5. 4,279 Lithuanians(0.4%) 6. 4,118 Germans(0.4%) 7. 3,250 Tatars(0.3%) 8. 2,581 Uzbeks(0.3%) 9. 2,555 Azeris(0.2%) 10. 1,402 Poles(0.1%) 11. 1,015 Tajiks(0.1%) 12. 25,706 others (2.5%) 13. 143,260 people (or 13.9% of the population) did not state their ethnicity Total fertility rate Vital statistics for 2...
Religion
According to a 2012 survey, 34% of the population of Kaliningrad Oblast declared themselves to be "spiritual but not religious", 30.9% adhered to the Russian Orthodox Church, 22% were atheist, and 11.1% followed other religions or did not answer the question, 1% were unaffiliated generic Christians, and 1% were Roman Catholic. Until 1945, the region was overwhelmingly Lutheran, with a small number of Roman Catholics and Jews. The state church of Prussia was dominant in the region. Although it...
In 2022, the gross regional domestic product of Kaliningrad Oblast was ₽ 738 billion or US$10.6 billion and around US$ 10,000 per capita. The existence of the oblast's ice-free port and proximity to the European Union are economic advantages. It also has the world's largest deposits of amber. The region has developed its tourism infrastructure and ...
The grain blight Fusarium graminearum in the oblast is genetically 3ADON, like the blight's strain in Finland and Saint Petersburg. The researchers who discovered the genetic commonality speculate the cause may be a shared population that is distinct from other F.graminearumpopulations elsewhere.
A. Liucija Arbusauskaité "The Soviet Policy Towards the 'Kaliningrad Germans' 1945–1951" chapter in Themenheft: Eingliederung und Ausgrenzung. Beiträge aus der Historischen Migrationsforschung. Hrs...Master's thesis by Sergey Naumkin on the possibility of Kaliningrad integrating with the EU as a special economic zoneThe Kaliningrad question is a political question concerning the status of Kaliningrad Oblast as an exclave of Russia, and its isolation from the rest of the Baltic region following the 2004 enlargement of the European Union.
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Kaliningrad ( Russian: Калинингра́д kuh-leen-een-GRAHD) , also known by its original German name, Königsberg, is the capital city of Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia. It has about 475,000 inhabitants (2018). It is also called 'Karaliaucius' in Lithuanian, as Lithuanians (cousins to the 'Old Prussians') used to live there.
