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May 10, 2023 · The Soviets renamed it Kaliningrad after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution.
The city was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 in honor of Russian Bolshevik leader Mikhail Kalinin. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it has been governed as the administrative centre of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, the westernmost oblast of Russia.
May 10, 2023 · The Soviets renamed it Kaliningrad after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution.
Aug 17, 2024 · The new city—renamed Kaliningrad in 1946—was rebuilt and centred in what had been Königsberg’s northwestern suburbs and became a major industrial and commercial centre, connected by a 20-mile (32-kilometre) dredged channel to an outport and naval base along the Baltic called Baltiysk.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was known as Königsberg (Polish: Królewiec, Lithuanian: Karaliaučius) prior to 1945 and Twangste prior to 1255. Historical coat of arms of Königsberg. Era of Teutonic Order.
May 10, 2023 · The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Poland's decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents was a "hostile act", as ties continue to fray over the Ukraine war.
May 10, 2023 · In 1946, it was renamed Kaliningrad, after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution. The Polish authorities point out that Kalinin was one of six Soviet officials who ordered the execution of more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.
