Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad (; ; ; ) is a seaport an the admeenistrative centre o Kaliningrad Oblast, the Roushie exclave atween Poland an Lithuanie on the Baltic Sea. The territory, the northren pairt o the umwhile East Prussie, borders on NATO an EU members Poland an Lithuanie, an is geographically separatit frae the rest o Roushie.

Oreeginally named Königsberg in German (, , , Auld Prussian: Twānkstathe an "Kunnegsgarbs", , Scots: Queensbrig), the toun wis founded in 1255, an wis lairgely destroyed durin Warld War II.  Its ruins wur occupied bi the Soviet Airmy in 1945 an its German citizens forced oot. It wis renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 in honour o Mikhail Kalinin.

At the 2002 Census, its population wis 430,003, an increase frae the 401,280 recordit in the 1989 Census. Its ethnic composition is 77.9% Roushies, 8.0% Belaroushies, 7.3% Ukrainians, 1.9% Lithuanians,Kaliningrad Oblast 0.6% Germans, and 0.5% Poles.

Internaitional relations
Twin touns - sister ceeties
Kaliningrad is twinned wi:
  Murmansk in Roushie
  Gdańsk, Poland (since 1993)
  Gdynia in Poland
  Zwolle in the Netherlands
  Toruń in Poland
  Białystok in Poland
  Zabrze in Poland  Łódź in Poland (since 1992) ''
  Olsztyn in Poland
  Malmö in Swaden
  Kiel in Germany
  Norfolk in Virginia, Unitit States
  Kalmar in Swaden   Mexico Ceety in Mexico
  Groningen in the Netherlands 
  Klaipėda in Lithuanie
  Šiauliai in Lithuanie
  Cork in Ireland 
  Aalborg in Denmark 

References


Category:Populatit places established in 1946
Category:Roushie an Soviet Navy bases
Category:Port ceeties an touns in Roushie
Category:Germany – Soviet Union relations
Category:Port ceeties an touns o the Easter Seas
Category:Populatit coastal places in Roushie
Category:German commonties