Complex sentence: The town was transferred from German to Russian control at the end of World War II in 1945, and renamed from "Friedland" to "Pravdinsk" ("Pravda " meaning"truth" in Russian).
Split into simpler sentences: The town was transferred from German to Russian control at the end of World War II in 1945. It was renamed from "Friedland" to "Pravdinsk" ("Pravda " meaning"truth" in Russian).