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| | GOV.KALININGRAD.RU - The Kaliningrad oblast admininstration. English version. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Imagine a tourist corridor crossing the region from west to east and including the main transportational routes (motor-car, railway, water) and historic towns on the route: Gvardeisk (the former Tapiau), Cherniakhovsk (theformer Insterburg, founded in 1336); Gusev (the former Gumbinnen) and Nesterov (the former Stalluperien). |
 | | Generally, all the castles are so numerous that simply can not be listed, so let us finish our review with the castle Tapiau, also of the XIII -th century, where the founder of Koenigsberg University, the last grandmaster of the Teutonic Order and the first duke of eastern Prussia Albrecht Gogenzollern, was buried. |
 | | Knight battles have become a distinctive visiting card of this region: "masters of the sword" arrive at the yearly knight pageants from all over the Russia and Baltic republics. |
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