Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: List of cities of Kaliningrad Oblast


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 9 Dec 09)

  
  Kaliningrad Oblast biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область), informally called Yantarny kray (Russian:Янтарный Край - meaning Amber land) is an administrative division (oblast) of Russia on the Baltic coast, with no land connection to the rest of Russia: an exclave.
Its largest city is Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), which has considerable historical significance as the capital city of Prussia, of which the region remains the core remnant.
The area around the city of Kaliningrad was completely sealed off for fifty years because the Soviet Union had built huge military installations there and used the harbor as a year round port—it was one of the few Soviet ports on the Baltic which was operable in winter-time.
kaliningrad-oblast.biography.ms   (678 words)

  
 Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad (Russian: Калининград), seaport city, capital and main city of the Kaliningrad Oblast, a small Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania with access to the Baltic Sea.
Königsberg became one of the biggest cities and ports of Ducal Prussia, which now perhaps was considered by some as one of the members of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with considerable autonomy, a separate parliament, and currency.
Kaliningrad is located at the mouth of the River Pregolya, which empties into the Vistula Lagoon.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/k/ka/kaliningrad.html   (1115 words)

  
 KALININGRAD FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lithuanian: ''Karaliaučius'') is a seaport city, capital and main city of the Kaliningrad_Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania with access to the Baltic_Sea.
Königsberg became one of the biggest cities and ports of Ducal_Prussia, with considerable autonomy, a separate parliament, and currency, and with German as its dominant language.
Kaliningrad was extremely important to the USSR (as the westmost part of its territory, for the placement of radio and TV broadcast jammers against western mass_media and as the place of the main naval_base of Soviet Baltic Fleet).
www.amysflowershop.com /Kaliningrad   (2290 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map
List of cities that have been the birthplace of a genre of music
List of cities, boroughs, towns, and villages in New Jersey
List of cities, villages, and townships in Michigan
www.gurunet.com /cm-dsname-Wikipedia-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-17601   (211 words)

  
 Kaliningrad Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область), informally called Yantarny kray (Russian:Янтарный Край - meaning Amber land) is an administrative division (oblast) of Russia on the Baltic coast, with no land connection to the rest of Russia: an enclave of the EU.
It is the westernmost parcel of land belonging to Russia, separated from the rest of Russia by the Baltic States.
Its largest city is Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), which has historical significance as both a major city of Prussia and the capital of the former German province East Prussia, of which the region remains the core remnant.
www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kaliningrad_Oblast   (347 words)

  
 Kaliningrad Oblast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kaliningraders now need visas to enter the neighbouring countries of Poland and Lithuania.
Before 1945, what is now Kaliningrad Oblast made up the northern part of East Prussia from the Baltic Sea to the east up to Lithuania and north of today's Poland.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, the enormousness of the installations and the sheer magnitude of the environmental destruction has been exposed.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/k/ka/kaliningrad_oblast.html   (643 words)

  
 Kaliningrad Oblast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область), informally called Yantarny kray (Russian:Янтарный Край - meaning Amber region) is an administrative division (oblast) of Russia on the Baltic coast, with no land connection to the rest of Russia: an enclave of the European Union.
The cities of Kaliningrad Oblast, despite being heavily damaged during World War 2 and after, still bears typical German architecture, such as Jugend Style (German form of Art Noveau), which shows the rich German history and cultural importance of the area.
The Kaliningrad Oblast is the fourth most densely populated oblast in the Russian Federation (62.5 persons per sq.km).
www.tocatch.info /en/Kaliningrad_Oblast.htm   (1806 words)

  
 gusev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gusev crater is a crater on Mars where the MER-A rover landed
The city of Gusev (Гусев;) in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (formerly Gumbinnen in East Prussia) has about 20,000 inhabitants.
It is situated close to the border to Lithuania, east of Chernyakhovsk.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Gusev.html   (105 words)

  
 Yasnaya Polyana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yasnaya Polyana (-Russian: Ясная Поляна, German: Trakhenen, Lithuanian: Trakėnai, Polish: Trakenach) is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
The town of Yasnaya Polyana was once known as Trakhenen in the German province of East Prussia.
After the Soviet Union occupied East Prussia at the end of World War II and divided the province between the Kaliningrad Oblast and Poland, the town was renamed from Trakehnen to Yasnaya Polyana or Yasnaja Poliana ("clear glade").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yasnaya_Polyana   (241 words)

  
 World War 1 and 2 - Kaliningrad Oblast
It is the westernmost parcel of land belonging to Russia, separated from the rest of Russia by Lithuania, Belarus and Latvia.
The scenes were a stark contrast to the former picture of Königsberg, the city of Immanuel Kant and the city of kings.
Since 1991 about 12,000 ethnic Germans from other parts of Russia have attempted to settle in the Kaliningrad oblast, but have mostly re-emigrated to Germany after just a few months.
www.worldwardiary.com /history/Kaliningrad_Oblast   (619 words)

  
 Kaliningrad [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
I came to Kaliningrad on a commuter plane from Copenhagen in a February snowstorm and rode by taxi into the city on a road still lined with stately oaks and lindens, the kind of road that once led to some of the finest estates of the Prussian military aristocracy.
The Oblast of Kaliningrad, a 100-by-50-mile jigsaw piece of the Northern European Plain, is a bucolic land of rich soil and moist forests that shelters herds of elk, a land once considered part of the granary of Germany.
When the oblast finally opened its borders in 1991, among the first visitors were busloads of "nostalgia tourists" from Germany, old Königsbergers returning to the scenes of their childhoods.
www.stormfront.org /forum/archive/index.php/t-32409   (3475 words)

  
 Read about Kaliningrad Oblast at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Kaliningrad Oblast and learn about Kaliningrad ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It is the westernmost parcel of land belonging to Russia, separated from the rest of Russia by
Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), which has historical significance as both a major city of
Recent photos (http://www.euronet.nl/~jlemmens/trakehnen.html) taken by Joost Lemmens of the Netherlands shows examples of small towns neglected under the Soviet Union around Kaliningrad Oblast.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Kaliningrad_Oblast   (270 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Russia - Issues and Procedures - Migration Patterns | Russian Information Resource
For example, beginning in 1993 Moscow authorities mounted "cleansing" cam paigns to rid the city of individuals lacking residence permits; because immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia are easily distinguishable from Slavs, such campaigns have detained and deported disproportionately large numbers from those ethnic grou ps.
Russian refugees seldom settle in an ethnic republic or a region with a high proportion of non-Russians, such as Orenburg Oblast; for that reason, their share of total refugees in the republics is less than 10 percent.
Armenian refugees, mainly from the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave of Azerbaijan, are concentrated in the North Caucasus and Saratov Oblast, as well as the large cities and Kaliningrad Oblast on the Baltic Sea.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/russia/russia67.html   (1814 words)

  
 Kaliningrad Oblast explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Image:LocationKaliningrad.png map of Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область), informally called Yantarny kray (Russian:Янтарный Край - meaning Amber land) is an administrative division (oblast) of Russia on the Baltic coast, with no land connection to the rest of Russia: an exclave.
In the case of the Soviet military occupation of the other part of Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the costs of environmental cleanup so far run into many billions of German Marks or dollars.
She shall find out what sort of a man he is. said, speaking as if she were there before him, "you won't--you won't go stay here, in the land of your birth.
www.wordspider.net /ka/kaliningrad-oblast.html   (999 words)

  
 World Rail Transit List
Cities are listed by name of the central or principal city of the urban area, according to (the latin alphabet rendition of) the local name.
A version of this list, complete with source citations and notes is under development.
Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast; LR 1881/?, TB 1975, CR
home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/rail-transit-list.html   (2275 words)

  
 Chernyakhovsk biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Chernyakhovsk is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Originally called Wystruc (Polish), Isruties (Lithuanian) or Insterburg (German) and part of East Prussia, it was captured by the Soviet Union and renamed Chernyakhovsk, after a Soviet general of WWII, later marshal Ivan Chernyakhovsky.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain a group of people introduced the Akhal-Teke horse breed to the area and opened an Akhal-Teke breeding stable.
chernyakhovsk.biography.ms   (164 words)

  
 Society Fresh : Article 'Sergiyev Posad'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Golden Ring (Russian: Золото́е Кольцо́) is a ring of cities northeast of Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation.
Many of these cities are to be found along the M8 highway or can be reached from Yaroslavl Railway Station in Moscow.
Sergiyevo-Posadsky District is a district in Moscow Region, Russia with its center in a town of Sergiyev Posad.
www.society-fresh.net /DisplayArticle845501.html   (578 words)

  
 [No title]
For example, party organs in the cities of Moscow, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, and Rostov-na-Donu, and in Leningrad Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, and the republic of Adygeya have all demanded that Seleznev be expelled from party ranks, "Vremya novostei" reported on 25 April.
For example, in the first three months of 2002, 2,500 foreign citizens received a temporary right to live in the city and another 3,500 foreign citizens were living in the city illegally, according to information of the city's local department of the Interior Ministry.
JAC [15]...AND BECOME CLOSED CITIES Deputies in the city of Novyi Urengoi in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug made a similar appeal on 23 April to close the city to "the free flow of uninvited guests," according to polit.ru on 25 April.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-04-26.rferl   (7688 words)

  
 Eastern Europe FAQ
A list of regions, former provinces and counties, and where they are today.
However, these listing are over 10 years out of date -- millions of new records are microfilmed and added to the collection every year.
Early revision lists (1795, 1811, 1816, 1842) microfilmed in Minsk in 1995.
www.jewishgen.org /infofiles/eefaq.html   (5241 words)

  
 Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
As the principal city of Roman Syria, the Patriarchate of Antioch was one of the key centers of early Christianity.
The name of "Prussia" was erased, and the district was the Soviet "Kaliningrad Oblast." Now, Kalinin was President of the Soviet Union under Stalin (1919-1946), and such Soviet era names have generally been replaced in Russia; but there is a dilemma with "Kaliningrad." The original name of Kaliningrad was, of course, Königsberg.
Perhaps the city was called a "mountain" because in a flat landscape the buildings of a city, especially a Mediaeval city with churches and a castle, might look relatively mountainous.
www.friesian.com /outremer.htm   (13741 words)

  
 Russia - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The remaining territory consists of 49 provinces known as oblasts and 6 regions (krays), in which are found 10 autonomous districts and 1 autonomous oblast.
Beyond these there are two federal cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
All are listed here by these federal districts, with the republics marked by a *:
openproxy.ath.cx /ru/Russia.html   (1268 words)

  
 Lithuania - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of the three Baltic States along the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with fellow Baltic State Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland to the south and Russia to the southwest, via the Kaliningrad Oblast.
The largest and most populous of the Baltic states, Lithuania is a generally maritime country with about 100 km of sandy coastline, of which only 38 km face the open Baltic Sea.
Lithuania's major warm-water port of Klaipeda lies at the narrow mouth of Kursiu Gulf[?], a shallow lagoon extending south to Kaliningrad.
www.openproxy.ath.cx /li/Lithuania.html   (728 words)

  
 Case Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Although the conditions for public policy advocacy are still quite challenging in Russia, the Odintsovo Chamber has compiled a list of suggested legislative changes from area chambers in the Moscow Oblast region and forwarded it to the central government for review.
The main functions of the Kaliningrad Chamber's Technical Assistance Center (TAC) include: assistance in registering a new business; helping entrepreneurs to create contracts; searching for business partners; reviewing proposals from foreign companies and offering advice; and providing basic information on enterprises in the region through use of a new database.
The Kaliningrad Chamber has even posted a billboard outside of its offices which has resulted in a considerable number of walk-in clients.
www.cipe.org /publications/ruschamber   (11413 words)

  
 Russia : Essential Historical Information, explanation, recent texts, monographs, and relevant links.
Subdivisions Main articles: Subdivisions of Russia, Federal districts of Russia, Republics of Russia, Oblasts of Russia, Krais of Russia.
The remaining territory consists of 49 regions (provinces) known as oblasts and 6 territories (krais), in which are found 10 autonomous districts (okrugs) and 1 autonomous oblast.
See also: List of cities in Russia Economy Main article: Economy of Russia A decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia is still struggling to establish a modern market economy and achieve strong economic growth.
www.llpoh.org /Reviewing_the_20th_century/Russia.html   (2298 words)

  
 Yasnaya Polyana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The city of Yasnaya Polyana in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, (formerly Trakehnen in Prussia) was home to the world famous warmblood Trakehner horse breed stables.
Under the Soviet Union the town of Trakehnen was named: Yasnaya Polyana or Yasnaja Poliana.
Yasnaya Polyana is currently still the name as part of a Russian exclave named Kaliningrad Oblast.
www.theezine.net /y/yasnaya-polyana.html   (268 words)

  
 Austria Maps
Other europa guide tour brasil beach.major cities include Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester in England, Belfast and Leisure, Tourist Attractions and Parks Coast, Terrain and Climate Londonderry in Northern Ireland, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, and Swansea and Cardiff in Wales.
The origins of the United Kingdom can be traced to the time of the Anglo-Saxon king Athelstan, who in the early 10th century AD secured the allegiance of neighbouring Celtic kingdoms and became “the first People and Arts London maps and sites, England Culture People History Map.
Other major cities include Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester in England, Belfast and Londonderry in Northern Ireland, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, austria brasil europaand Swansea and Cardiff in Wales.
congo.africa-atlas.com /travel/austria.htm   (1034 words)

  
 Yasnaya Polyana biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
de:Trakehnen The city of Yasnaya Polyana in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, (formerly Trakehnen in Prussia) was home to the world famous warmblood Trakehner horse breed stables.
Trakehnen is derived from a West Baltic language, Old Prussian word 'trakis' meaning field or wilderness.
For many years, the estate has been a museum.
yasnaya-polyana.biography.ms   (179 words)

  
 Detailed information about Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Recently, seven extensive federal districts (four in Europe, three in Asia) have been added as a new layer between the above subdivisions and the national level.
Most of the landscape consists of vast plains, both in the European part and the Asian part that is largely known as Siberia.
* List of cities in Russia Economy A decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia is still struggling to establish a modern market economy and achieve strong economic growth.
www.investingcompany.com /September_11_2001/Russia.html   (1386 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.