Kaliningrad (rus)

Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad ranks 1,747th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kotor, Summit, New Jersey, and Mtskheta. Memorable people born in Kaliningrad include Lyudmila Putina, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and Sergei Beloglazov. Memorable people who died in Kaliningrad include Martin Rathke, and Alexander Volkov. Kaliningrad has been the birth place of many wrestlers, and athletes and the death place of many biologists, and tennis players. Kaliningrad is located in Russia.

Kaliningrad, until 1946 known as Königsberg, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland. The city sits about 663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia. The city is situated on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon on the Baltic Sea, and is the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea. Its population in 2020 was 489,359, with up to 800,000 residents in the urban agglomeration. Kaliningrad is the second-largest city in the Northwestern Federal District, after Saint Petersburg, the third-largest city in the Baltic region, and the seventh-largest city on the Baltic Sea. Read more on Wikipedia