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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) |
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