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| | Kaliningrad - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | 401,000), capital of Kaliningrad region, an exclave of 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. |
 | | As part of the northern section of East Prussia, the city was transferred to the USSR in 1945, and the German population was expelled. |
 | | The city (renamed Kaliningrad for Mikhail Kalinin in 1946) was rebuilt after 1945, although the old castle was demolished; the population became almost entirely Russian. |
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