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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.
May 10, 2023 · The Soviets renamed it Kaliningrad after Mikhail Kalinin, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution. Kaliningrad profile. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Kaliningrad became part of...
May 17, 2018 · In 1946, after the death of one of the most important Soviet activists, Mikhail Kalinin, the city was renamed Kaliningrad. However, there was already a town of that name in the USSR in the Moscow Oblast, and the duplication caused plenty of correspondence problems.
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. [12]
Jul 18, 2002 · Kaliningrad took its Soviet-era name from politician Mikhail Kalinin, who was the Soviet Union's honorific head of state from 1938 to 1946, the year the city was renamed. But until then, Kaliningrad was known as Koenigsberg, capital of the then-German region of East Prussia.
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.
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Apr 6, 2023 · In 1946, Königsberg became Kaliningrad, renamed after the Bolshevik revolutionary Mikhail Kalinin. The city would go on to become a Soviet military outpost with access to the Baltic Sea, a strategic point of control in Europe.
