The Potsdam Agreement of 1945 placed it under Soviet administration. The city was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 in honor of Russian Bolshevik leader Mikhail ...
Kaliningrad
City in Russia
Kaliningrad is the capital of the Russian province of the same name, sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic Coast. Dubbed Königsberg during centuries of Prussian rule, the city was largely reconstructed after WWII. Traces of its...
Area: 86.11 mi²
City Day: 4 July; observed on the first Saturday of July
Dialing code(s): +7 4012
Elevation: 5 m (16 ft)
Founded: 1 September 1255
OKTMO ID: 27701000001
Postal code(s): 236001 - 236999
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