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  Kaliningrad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1946 the city's name was changed from Königsberg to Kaliningrad, in honor of the Soviet leader M.
401,000), capital of Kaliningrad region, W European Russia, on the Pregolya River near its mouth on the Vislinski Zalev, which empties into the Gulf of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.
A major ice-free Baltic seaport and naval base, and an important industrial, fishing, and commercial center, Kaliningrad has industries that produce ships and machinery and process food, fish, and wood.
www.calguard.ca.gov /ia/konigsberg/Kaliningrad%20Encarta%20background.htm   (627 words)

  
 Coalition Clean Baltic
Pregolya River is the main water body in Kaliningrad city; forming an important part of the peculiarity the city's landscape.
Pregolya River enters Kaliningrad in its eastern suburb, splitting the city into halves.
Adverse environmental conditions in Pregolya River have direct impact on the quality of municipal drinking water, which mainly (up to 2/3 of the total use) coming from the river creates potential threat to the citizens' health.
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 Russian Cities: Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad is the capital of the Kaliningrad region in West European Russia, situated on the Pregolya River near its mouth on the Vislinski Zalev, which in turn empties into the Gulf of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.
Kaliningrad is one of Russia's major ice free Baltic seaport and naval base.
In the 1990's, the city saw the arrival of ethnic Germans from other parts of the new Russian Federation.
www.russiannewsnetwork.com /kaliningrad.html   (277 words)

  
 Land Resources of Russia
The large rivers are Neman and Pregolya; there are many lakes.
The length of transport routes in 1998 was: 570 km railways, 4567 km main roads.
The Neman and the Pregolya rivers are used for navigation.
www.iiasa.ac.at /Research/FOR/russia_cd/adm_lis.htm   (15014 words)

  
 The Baltic Coast (Kaliningrad region)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The land is low-lying, with the Kurshsk and Baltiisk sand tongues reaching a height of 60 meters.
The main rivers are the Neman and Pregolya, united by a system of canals.
Kaliningrad (Kцnigsberg) stands on the Pregolya river at its outlet into the Baltic sea.
www.russiatourism.ru /eng/object.asp?id=184   (462 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Kaliningrad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government.
As a result of independence for Lithuania and Belarus in the early 1990s, the territory became a Russian exclave, separated from the rest of Russia.
Landsat photo Vistula Lagoon Vistula Lagoon (or Bay, Gulf) is the sweet water lagoon on the Baltic Sea that is cut off from Gdansk Bay by the Vistula Spit.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kaliningrad   (6501 words)

  
 Konigsberg: History Our Family Lived Through From the 1200's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Known as Königsberg prior to Soviet occupation, the city was founded in 1255 near the mouth of the Pregolya River.
The philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg in 1724.
Approximately 400,000 people live in metropolitan Kaliningrad and a total of one million are in the oblast, which is approximately one-fifth forested.
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 Kaliningrad Sea Commercial Port   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The port comes from one of the oldest harbors on the Baltic Sea located in the city of Koenigsberg - the capital of the former East Prussia.
The foundation of the city near the mouth of the Pregolya river, its development and prosperity have always been connected with trading and maintenance of commercial ways, crossing at the port at all times.
In 1339 the city - port of Koenigsberg entered Hansa - the legendary commercial union of the Baltic cities.
www.scport.net /history_en/history_en.phtml   (1107 words)

  
 Guardian | Cold front over Kaliningrad
One of Russia's problems is that Kaliningrad's connections with Russia are fading fast, as evidenced in the city centre.
On one bank of the Pregolya river stands the restored gothic Prussian red-brick cathedral - a magnet for tourists and locals.
On the other the concrete Rubik's cube which housed the Soviet authorities squats abandoned and fenced off in the centre of a weed-choked car park.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4496341-103610,00.html   (837 words)

  
 Pregolya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pregolya (), también deletreado como Pregola (alemán: Pregelificar) es un río en el exclave ruso de Kaliningrad.
Comienza como confluencia del Instruch y del Angrapa y drena en el mar báltico a través de la laguna de Vistula.
English version: Pregolya Next: Armadura del pelo Up
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/pr/Pregolya.htm   (64 words)

  
 The Map Room Journal - A Search for the Lost Cities of the German Reich
I was booked at the Hansa which turned out to be an Austrian run boat-hotel on the Pregolya River running through the center of the city.
Konigsberg was founded 800 years ago with the construction of a mammoth castle on the banks of the Pregolya.
The castle was bombed during the war and remained untouched for two decades and then was dynamited because it was considered a "fascist monument." In its place stands the unfinished H-shaped House of the Soviets, a particularly ugly high-rise architectural monument to the Soviet era.
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 Kaliningrad, Russia  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Kaliningrad, Russia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
, formerly Königsberg, city, western Russia, on the Pregolya River.
The capital of Kaliningrad Oblast, it is a major industrial and commercial center, connected by channel with Baltiysk, an ice-free port on the Baltic Sea.
www.galenfrysinger.com /kaliningrad.htm   (282 words)

  
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A group of pupils from the school №10, which is a member of the UNESCO associated schools' network, conducted regular hydro- and meteorological research in the laboratory.
The pupils participated in a specialized ecology expedition up the Pregolya River.
The results of the environmental research around the ship's landing sites were demonstrated on the electronic screen by means of a running line.
www.unesco.ru /eng/pages/bythemes/kaliningrad.php   (225 words)

  
 Kaliningrad - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It sits beside the Pregolya River as if orphaned; newlyweds have begun to bring flowers to Kant's tomb, as they once did at the statue of Lenin, who still strikes a heroic pose on Victory Square, formerly Adolf Hitler Platz.
Kant has become a local celebrity to disillusioned Russian youngsters, many of whom have taken Prussian history as part of their own.
We drove east from the city one Saturday afternoon along the valley of the Pregolya, its floodplains soaked by an early thaw.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=32409   (3490 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
The Pregolya, Neman, Prokhladnaya, and Krasnaya rivers and 4600 other small rivers, canals, and streams flow through the region.
Commercial and fishing ports and Western shipping lines are all part of the marine transport sector.
Twenty companies have their own berths along the maritime canal, in Kurshsky and Kaliningrad bays, and on the Neman, Pregolya, and inland rivers.
www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=386&doc_id=-43   (5662 words)

  
 Pregolya River at Dawn - Russian Decorative Art, Pregolya River at Dawn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Pregolya River at Dawn - Russian Decorative Art, Pregolya River at Dawn
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www.russiangiftsandculture.com /Store/Collectibles/PregolyaRiveratDawn   (331 words)

  
 Балтийский деловой клуб Калининград Россия www.bdk.ru Baltic business club ...
The Transport Complex of the Kaliningrad Region is represented by ice-free ports in Kaliningrad, Baitiysk, and Pionersk.
The complex consists of the three autonomous transshipment enterprises (two sea ports and one river port) situated in the mouth of the Pregolya river.
The 40-km long Kaliningrad sea canal provides for the access of ships to the Kaliningrad sea port.
www.bdk.ru /nfe.htm   (1232 words)

  
 Universal Book of Mathematics: list of entries
The old city of Königsberg, once the capital of East Prussia, is now called Kaliningrad, and falls within a tiny part of Russia known as the Western Russian Enclave, between Poland and Lithuania, which (to the surprise even of many modern Russians) is not connected with the rest of the country!
Königsberg lay some four miles from the Baltic Sea on rising ground on both sides of the river Pregel (now the Pregolya), which flowed through the town in two branches before uniting below the Grune Brocke (Green Bridge).
Seven bridges (numbered in the diagram) crossed the Pregel and connected various parts of the city (letters A to D), including Kneiphof Island (B), the site of Königsberg University and the grave of its most famous son, the great philosopher Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804).
www.daviddarling.info /works/Mathematics/mathematics_samples.html   (5705 words)

  
 watres6_3p659abs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Abstract—A quasi-constant hydrological front is found to form in the Pregolya River, flowing through Kalin-
deterioration of the environmental situation in the Pregolya River.
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 College Mathematics Journal, The: Truth about Konigsberg, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The river flowed around the island of Kneiphof (literally, pub yard) and divided the city into four regions connected by seven bridges: Blacksmith's bridge, Connecting bridge, High bridge, Green bridge, Honey bridge, Merchant's bridge, and Wooden bridge: Figure 3 shows a seventeenth-century map of the city.
Konigsberg later became the capital of East Prussia and more recently became the Russian city of Kaliningrad, while the river Pregel was renamed Pregolya.
In 1727 Leonhard Euler began working at the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3773/is_200405/ai_n9384545   (1403 words)

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