Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad, also known by its original German name, Königsberg, is the capital city of in . It has about 475,000 inhabitants.
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  • Email: cityhall@klgd.ru
  • Type: City with 490,000 residents
  • Description: Russian Baltic city between Poland and Lithuania
  • Also known as: “Kënisberg”, “Königsberg”, “Körigsberg”, “Tuwangeste”, “Tuwangste”, “Twangste”, “Twankste”, “Twongst”, and “Twoyngst”
  • Address: Калининград

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Church of the Holy Family and Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum.

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The Catholic Church of the Holy Family is a neogothic brick church in Kaliningrad. It was built in the Haberberg city district of Königsberg, near the river, between 1904 and 1907.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is a located in the city of Kaliningrad devoted to housing and displaying amber artworks. It is located in the city center, on the shore of Lake Verkhneye.

Arts center
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is a former stock exchange in now Kaliningrad, . One of the few buildings in central Königsberg to survive World War II, it is now a cultural centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hufen and Amalienau.

Suburb
was a broad region along northwestern Königsberg, , which developed into the quarters of Ratshof, , Mittelhufen, and Vorderhufen. The territory is now part of the Tsentralny District of Kaliningrad, .

Suburb
was a suburban quarter of western Königsberg, . Its territory is now part of the Tsentralny District of Kaliningrad, .

Neighborhood
is part of the Leningradsky District in northern Kaliningrad, . It was formerly known by its German language name Kalthof as first a suburb of and then a quarter of Königsberg, .

Kaliningrad

Latitude
54.7101° or 54° 42′ 37″ north
Longitude
20.5106° or 20° 30′ 38″ east
Population
490,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Inception
September 1st, 1255
Named after
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
IATA airport code
KGD
United Nations Location Code
RU KGD
Open location code
9G62PG66+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27048976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
554234
Wiki­data ID
Q1829
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kaliningrad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kaliningrad”
  • Albanian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Albanian: “Kaliningradi”
  • Amharic: “ካሊኒንግራድ”
  • Arabic: “كالينينغراد”
  • Armenian: “Կալինինգրադ”
  • Asturian: “Kaliningráu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalininqrad”
  • Balinese: “Kaliningrad”
  • Bashkir: “Калининград”
  • Basque: “Kaliningrad”
  • Belarusian: “Калінінград”
  • Belarusian: “Каралявец”
  • Belarusian: “Кёнігсбэрг”
  • Bengali: “কালিনিনগ্রাড”
  • Bengali: “কালিনিনগ্রাদ”
  • Bosnian: “Kalinjingrad”
  • Bosnian: “Königsberg”
  • Breton: “Kaliningrad”
  • Bulgarian: “Калининград”
  • Burmese: “ကာလင်နင်ဂရတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “antiga Königsberg”
  • Catalan: “Kaliningrad”
  • Cebuano: “Kaliningrad”
  • Central Kurdish: “کالینینگراد”
  • Chavacano: “Kaliningrado”
  • Chechen: “Калининград”
  • Chinese: “Kaliningrad”
  • Chinese: “加里宁格勒”
  • Chinese: “加里寧格勒”
  • Chinese: “哥尼斯堡”
  • Church Slavic: “Калининъ Градъ”
  • Chuvash: “Калининград”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kaliningrad”
  • Croatian: “Kalinjingrad”
  • Croatian: “Kraljevac” (historical)
  • Czech: “Kaliningrad”
  • Czech: “Königsberg”
  • Czech: “Královec”
  • Danish: “Kaliningrad”
  • Danish: “Königsberg”
  • Danish: “Kønigsberg”
  • Danish: “Калининград”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kaliningrad”
  • Dutch: “Kaliningrad”
  • Eastern Mari: “Калининград”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كالينينجراد”
  • Erzya: “Калининград ош”
  • Esperanto: “Kaliningrado”
  • Estonian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Estonian: “Königsberg”
  • Faroese: “Kaliningrad”
  • Finnish: “Kalingrad”
  • Finnish: “Kaliningrad”
  • French: “Kaliningrad”
  • French: “Königsberg”
  • French: “Krolewiec”
  • Fulah: “Kaliningrad”
  • Galician: “Kaliningrado”
  • Georgian: “კალინინგრადი”
  • German: “Kaliningrad”
  • German: “Königsberg”
  • German: “Královec”
  • German: “Tuwangeste”
  • German: “Tuwangste”
  • German: “Twangste”
  • German: “Twankste”
  • German: “Twongst”
  • German: “Twoyngst”
  • German: “Königsberg in Preußen” (historical)
  • Greek: “Καλίνινγκραντ”
  • Guarani: “Kaliningrado”
  • Gujarati: “કેલિનિનગ્રાદ”
  • Hausa: “Kaliningrad”
  • Hawaiian: “Naīnaual”
  • Hebrew: “קלינינגרד”
  • Hebrew: “קניגסברג”
  • Hindi: “कालिनिनग्राद”
  • Hindi: “कैलिनिनग्राद”
  • Hungarian: “Kalinyingrád”
  • Hungarian: “Karaliaučius”
  • Hungarian: “Königsberg”
  • Hungarian: “Królewiec”
  • Hungarian: “Калининград”
  • Icelandic: “Kalíníngrad”
  • Ido: “Kaliningrad”
  • Indonesian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Interlingue: “Kaliningrad”
  • Irish: “Kaliningrad”
  • Italian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Italian: “Königsberg”
  • Japanese: “カリーニングラード”
  • Javanese: “Kaliningrad”
  • Kalmyk: “Калининград”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲಿನಿನ್‍ಗ್ರಾಡ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲಿನಿನ್ಗ್ರಾಡ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kaliningrad”
  • Kashubian: “Króléwc”
  • Kazakh: “Калининград”
  • Kirghiz: “Калининград”
  • Komering: “Kaliningrad”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Калининград”
  • Korean: “깔리닌그라드”
  • Korean: “칼리닌그라드”
  • Kurdish: “Kaliningrad”
  • Ladin: “Kaliningrad”
  • Ladino: “Kaliningrado”
  • Latin: “Calininopolis”
  • Latin: “Kaliningradum”
  • Latin: “Kalininopolis”
  • Latin: “Regiomontium Borussorum”
  • Latin: “Regiomontium”
  • Latvian: “Kaļiņingrada”
  • Latvian: “Karaļauči”
  • Latvian: “Kēningsberga”
  • Ligurian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Limburgan: “Kaliningrad”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaliningradas”
  • Lithuanian: “Karaliaučius/Kaliningradas”
  • Lithuanian: “Karaliaučius” (historical)
  • Lithuanian: “Tvangstė”
  • Lithuanian: “Tvangystė”
  • Lithuanian: “Tvanksta”
  • Low German: “Königsbarg”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Macedonian: “Калининград”
  • Malay: “Kaliningrad”
  • Malayalam: “കലിനിൻഗ്രാഡ്”
  • Maltese: “Kaliningrad”
  • Maltese: “Königsberg”
  • Maori: “Kaliningrad”
  • Maori: “Kariniharata”
  • Marathi: “कालिनिनग्राद”
  • Mazanderani: “کالینینگراد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kaliningrad”
  • Mingrelian: “კალინინგრადი”
  • Moksha: “Калининград”
  • Mongolian: “Калининград”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaliningrad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaliningrad”
  • Norwegian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kaliningrad”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cyningesbeorg”
  • Oromo: “Kaliningrad”
  • Ossetian: “Калининград”
  • Ossetian: “Кёнигсберг”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਲਿਨਿਨਗ੍ਰਾਡ”
  • Persian: “کالینینگراد”
  • Piemontese: “Kaliningrad”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kaliningrad”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kyonigsberg”
  • Polish: “Kaliningrad” (historical)
  • Polish: “Königsberg”
  • Polish: “Królewiec”
  • Polish: “Tuwangeste”
  • Polish: “Tuwangste”
  • Polish: “Twangste”
  • Polish: “Twankste”
  • Polish: “Twongst”
  • Polish: “Twoyngst”
  • Portuguese: “Caliningrado”
  • Portuguese: “Kaliningrado”
  • Portuguese: “Königsberg”
  • Pushto: “کالینینګراد”
  • Pushto: “کالینینگراد”
  • Quechua: “Kaliningrad”
  • Romanian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Romanian: “Калининград”
  • Russia Buriat: “Калининград”
  • Russian: “Калининград”
  • Russian: “Калининградский городской округ”
  • Russian: “Кенигсберг”
  • Russian: “Кёнигсберг”
  • Russian: “Королевец”
  • Russian: “Твангсте”
  • Samogitian: “Karaliaučios”
  • Sardinian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Scots: “Kaliningrad”
  • Serbian: “Калињинград”
  • Serbian: “Кенигзберг” (historical)
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalinjingrad”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းၵႃႇလိင်ႇၼိင်ႇၵရၢတ်ႉ”
  • Sicilian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Silesian: “Kalińingrad”
  • Sinhala: “කලිනින්ග්‍රඩ්”
  • Sinhala: “කලීනින්ග්‍රැඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Kaliningrad”
  • Slovenian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Slovenian: “Königsberg”
  • Slovenian: “Twangste”
  • Somali: “Kaliningrad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کالینینقراد”
  • Spanish: “Kaliningrado”
  • Spanish: “Königsberg”
  • Spanish: “Twangste”
  • Swahili: “Kaliningrad”
  • Swedish: “Kaliningrad”
  • Tagalog: “Kaliningrado”
  • Tajik: “Калининград”
  • Talysh: “Kaliningrad”
  • Talysh: “Kalininqrad”
  • Tamil: “கலினின்கிராத்”
  • Tamil: “களினின்கிரட்”
  • Tatar: “Калининград”
  • Telugu: “కలినింగ్రాద్”
  • Thai: “คาลีนินกราด”
  • Turkish: “Kaliningrad”
  • Turkmen: “Kaliningrad”
  • Udmurt: “Калининград”
  • Ukrainian: “Калінінград”
  • Ukrainian: “Калінінґрад”
  • Ukrainian: “Кенігсберг”
  • Ukrainian: “Кеніґсберґ”
  • Ukrainian: “Королевець Прусський”
  • Ukrainian: “Крулевець”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kralowc”
  • Urdu: “کیلننگراڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Kaliningrad”
  • Venetian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Veps: “Kaliningrad”
  • Vietnamese: “Kaliningrad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kaliningrad”
  • Welsh: “Kaliningrad”
  • Western Frisian: “Kaliningrad”
  • Western Panjabi: “کالیننگراڈ”
  • Wolof: “Kaliningrad”
  • Wu Chinese: “加里宁格勒”
  • Yiddish: “קאלינינגראד”
  • Yue Chinese: “加里寧格勒”
  • “Kaliningrad”
  • “Karaliaučios”
  • “Калининград”

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