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For the historical town see also Königsberg
Königsberg

K?nigsberg was after World War II in 1946 renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviet Union.The city was the Capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945....

Kaliningrad ( ) is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia....
, the Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n exclave

Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
between Poland

Poland

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
on the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
. The territory borders on NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949....
and EU

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
members Poland and Lithuania, and is geographically separated from the rest of Russia.

Originally named Königsberg
Königsberg

K?nigsberg was after World War II in 1946 renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviet Union.The city was the Capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945....
, the Prussian and German town had been founded in 1255, and was then largely destroyed during World War II

World War II

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Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia....
, the Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n exclave

Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
between Poland

Poland

Lithuania

Baltic Sea

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949....
and EU

European Union

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. Its ruins were occupied by the Soviet Army in 1945 and it was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946. In the meantime, the name was briefly Russified

Russification

Russification is an adoption of the Russian language or some other Russian attribute by non-Russian communities. In a narrow sense, Russification is used to denote the influence of the Russian language on Slavic languages, Baltic languages and other languages, spoken in areas currently or formerly controlled by Russia, which led to emerging...
as Kyonigsberg .

At the 2002 Census

Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
, its population was 430,003, an increase from the 401,280 recorded in the 1989 Census

Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
. Its ethnic composition is 77.9% Russians

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....
, 8.0% Belarusians

Belarusians

Belarusians or Belorussians are an East Slavs ethnic group who populate the majority of the Belarus and form minorities in neighboring Poland , Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine....
, 7.3% Ukrainians

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
, 1.9% Lithuanians

Lithuanians

Lithuanians are the Balts ethnic group native to Lithuania, where they number a little over 3 million people. Another million or more make up the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Russia, United Kingdom and Ireland....
, 0,6% Germans and 0,5 % Poles.

History

As Königsberg

The castle of Königsberg was built in 1255 by the Teutonic Knights

Teutonic Knights

The Order of the Teutonic Knights of St. Mary's Hospital in Jerusalem , or for short the Teutonic Order was a Germans Roman Catholic religious order....
as a tribute to King Ottokar II of Bohemia

Ottokar II of Bohemia

Ottokar II , called The Iron and Golden King, was the King of Bohemia from 1253 until 1278. He was the Duke of Austria , Styria , Carinthia and Carniola also....
, who had led a campaign against pagan Sambians

Sambians

The Sambians were one of the Old Prussians. They inhabited the peninsula of Sambia, north of the city of K?nigsberg . Sambians were located in a coastal territory rich in amber and engaged in trade early on ....
. The town became a member of the Hanseatic League

Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was an Military alliance of Trade cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period ....
, then in 1457 headquarters of the Teutonic Order, and seat of the secular Duchy of Prussia in 1525. Königsberg became a centre of education when the Albertina University was founded by Duke Albert of Prussia in 1544. By the act of coronation in Königsberg in 1701, Prince-elector Frederick III of Brandenburg became Frederick I

Frederick I of Prussia

Frederick I , of the House of Hohenzollern dynasty, was Prince-elector of Brandenburg and the first King in Prussia ....
, King in Prussia

King in Prussia

King in Prussia was a title used by the Elector of Brandenburg from 1701 to 1772. Subsequently they used the title King of Prussia.The Prince-Elector of Brandenburg was a subject of the Holy Roman Emperor....
. After World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, the creation of the Polish Corridor

Polish Corridor

The Polish Corridor was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia which provided the Second Republic of Poland with access to the Baltic Sea, thus dividing the bulk of Germany from her province of East Prussia....
cut off East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
and Königsberg from the rest of mainland Weimar Germany

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
.

In the bombing of Königsberg in World War II

Bombing of Königsberg in World War II

In 1944 during World War II, the city of K?nigsberg was extensively bombed from the air by the United Kingdom Royal Air Force and burned for several days....
in 1944, the town suffered heavy damage from British air attacks and burned for several days. The historic city center, including Altstadt, Löbenicht and Kneiphof, was completely destroyed: the cathedral, the castle, all the churches of the old city, the old and the new universities and the old shipping quarter were destroyed. The Battle of Königsberg

Battle of Königsberg

The Battle of K?nigsberg , was one of the last operations of the East Prussian Offensive during World War II. In four days of violent urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front captured the city of K?nigsberg ....
raged all through February and March 1945. The city was bombed and shelled continuously. On April 9 the German military commander surrendered the remnants of his forces. About 50,000 residents (compared to Königsberg's population on January 1, 1940 of 372,270) remained in the ruins of the devastated city. The remaining German population was expelled

Expulsion of Germans after World War II

The 'expulsion of Germans after World War II' was the forced migration of German nationals and ethnic Germans in order to achieve the ethnic cleansing of German populations from the former eastern territories of Germany, former Sudetenland and other areas across Europe in the first five years after World War II....
from 1945–48.

Soviet Union

At the end of World War II in 1945, the city became part of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
pending the final determination of territorial questions at the peace settlement (as part of the Russian SFSR

Russian SFSR

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , also called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Russian SFSR and the RSFSR for short, was the largest and most populous of the fifteen Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union and became the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union....
) as agreed upon by the Allies at the Potsdam Conference

Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of William, German Crown Prince, in Potsdam, Germany, from July 16 to August 2, 1945....
:

VI. CITY OF KOENIGSBERG AND THE ADJACENT AREA
The Conference examined a proposal by the Soviet Government that pending the final determination of territorial questions at the peace settlement the section of the western frontier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which is adjacent to the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
should pass from a point on the eastern shore of the Bay of Danzig
Gdansk Bay

Gdansk Bay or the Bay of Gdansk , is a southeastern Headlands and bays of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the adjacent port city of Gdansk in Poland and it is sometimes referred to as a gulf....
to the east, north of Braunsberg
Braniewo

Braniewo [] is a town in northeastern Poland, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, with a population of 18,068 . It is the capital of Braniewo County....
and Goldap
Goldap

Goldap [] is a town and the seat of Goldap County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland. It is located on the Goldapa River, between the Wzg?rza Szeskie hills and the Puszcza Romincka forest....
, to the meeting point of the frontiers of Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
, the Polish Republic
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
and East Prussia
East Prussia

East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
.

The Conference has agreed in principle to the proposal of the Soviet Government concerning the ultimate transfer to the Soviet Union of the city of Koenigsberg and the area adjacent to it as described above, subject to expert examination of the actual frontier.

The President of the United States and the British Prime Minister
Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was a British people politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
have declared that they will support the proposal of the Conference at the forthcoming peace settlement.

Koenigsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 after the death of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

President of the Soviet Union

The President of the Soviet Union was the Head of State of the USSR from 15 March 1990 to 25 December 1991. Mikhail Gorbachev was the only person to occupy the office....
of the USSR Mikhail Kalinin

Mikhail Kalinin

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the titular head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. Though only four years older than Joseph Stalin, Kalinin was celebrated as Dedushka by the Young Pioneers....
, one of the original Bolshevik

Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
s. The German population was expelled

Expulsion of Germans after World War II

German language

Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
as the language of everyday life. The city was rebuilt, and went through industrialisation

Industrialisation

Industrialization is the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industry one....
and modernisation. As the westernmost territory of the USSR, the Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia....
became a strategically important area during the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
. The Soviet Baltic Fleet

Baltic Fleet

The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - , was the Imperial Russian Navy, later Soviet Navy, and is now the Russian Navy's presence in the Baltic Sea....
was headquartered in the city in the 1950s. Because of its strategic importance, Kaliningrad was closed

Closed city

A closed city or closed town is a settlement in countries of the former Soviet Union with travel and residency restrictions. Such places are known in Russian as "closed administrative-territorial formations" ....
to foreign visitors.

In 1957 an agreement was signed and later came into force which delimited the boundary between Poland and the Soviet Union. (Full text: , for other issues of the frontier delimitation see )

Russian Federation

Kaliningrad is the only Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

Baltic Fleet

The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - , was the Imperial Russian Navy, later Soviet Navy, and is now the Russian Navy's presence in the Baltic Sea....
.

Due to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Kaliningrad Oblast became an exclave

Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
, geographically separated from the rest of Russia. This isolation from the rest of Russia became even more pronounced politically when Poland

Poland

Lithuania

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949....
and subsequently the European Union

European Union

Enlargement of the European Union

Enlargement of the European Union is the process of expanding the European Union through the accession of new Member State of the European Union....
. All military and civilian land links between the region and the rest of Russia have to pass through members of NATO and the EU. Special travel arrangements for the territory's inhabitants have been made.

Today, there is some debate about changing the name of the city back to "Königsberg" in the same way that several other Russian cities have reverted to their pre-Soviet names, e.g. St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
and Tver

Tver

Tver is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, the administrative center of Tver Oblast. Population: 405,500 ; 408,903 . Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in Imperial Russia with population of 60,000 on...
, which were known in the Soviet era as Leningrad and Kalinin, respectively. "Kyonig" (a shortened Russian form of "Königsberg") is often used in advertisements for tourism companies in the region. Another possibility would be to give it a Russian name similar to other historic Slavic names, such as "Korolevsk".

In July 2007, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov

Sergei Ivanov

Sergei Borisovich Ivanov is a Russian political figure. He was Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation from March 2001 to February 2007, Deputy Prime Minister from November 2005 to February 2007, and has been First Deputy Prime Minister since February 2007....
declared that if US-controlled missile defense

Missile defense

File:Spliced.fylingdales.jpgMissile defense is a system, weapon, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception and destruction of attacking missiles....
systems were deployed in Poland, then nuclear weapons might be deployed in Kaliningrad. On 5 November 2008, Russian leader Dimitry Medvedev said that installing missiles in Kaliningrad was almost a certainty. However, these plans were suspended in January 2009.

Geography

Kaliningrad is located at the mouth of the navigable Pregolya River

Pregolya

The Pregolya or Pregola is a river in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast exclave.It starts as a confluence of the Instruch and the Angrapa and drains into the Baltic Sea through Vistula Lagoon....
, which empties into the Vistula Lagoon

Vistula Lagoon

The Vistula Lagoon is a fresh water lagoon on the Baltic Sea separated from Gdansk Bay by the Vistula Spit. It is sometimes known as the Vistula Headlands and bays or Vistula Gulf....
, an inlet of the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

Gdansk Bay

Gdansk Bay or the Bay of Gdansk , is a southeastern Headlands and bays of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the adjacent port city of Gdansk in Poland and it is sometimes referred to as a gulf....
and the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

Strait of Baltiysk

The Strait of Baltiysk is the strait in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It connects Gdansk Bay and Vistula Bay, and separates Sambian Peninsula and Vistula Spit....
.

Until circa 1900 ships drawing more than of water could not pass the bar and come into town, so that larger vessels had to anchor at Pillau (now Baltiysk

Baltiysk

Baltiysk , prior to 1945 known by its German language name Pillau , is a Russian seaport town in Kaliningrad Oblast. It is situated on the northern part of the Vistula Spit, 29 miles from Kaliningrad, on the shore of the Strait of Baltiysk separating the Vistula Bay from the Gdansk Bay....
), where merchandise was moved onto smaller vessels. In 1901 a ship canal

Canal

Canals are artificial channels for water. There are two types of canals: Aqueduct canals, which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water, and waterways, which are navigable transportation canals used for passage of goods and people, often connected to existing lakes, rivers, or oceans....
between Königsberg and Pillau was completed at a cost of 13 million marks

German gold mark

The Goldmark is the name used for the currency of the German Empire from 1873 to 1914....
, which enabled vessels of a draught to moor alongside the town. (See also Ports of the Baltic Sea

Ports of the Baltic Sea

This table lists statistics for the major ports of the Baltic Sea. Container traffic is given in terms of Twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo....
.)

Khrabrovo Airport

Khrabrovo Airport

Khrabrovo Airport is located 24 km north of Kaliningrad, east off the Zelenogradsk highway. The airport, part of which is still military, is a bare landing strip with few frills for passengers....
is located north of Kaliningrad, and has a few scheduled/charter services to several destinations throughout Europe. There is the smaller Kaliningrad Devau Airport

Kaliningrad Devau Airport

Kaliningrad Devau Airport is located 5 km northeast of Kaliningrad. Today it is a small general aviation airfield and is also used for sports aviation....
for general aviation. Kaliningrad is also home to Kaliningrad Chkalovsk

Kaliningrad Chkalovsk

Kaliningrad Chkalovsk is a naval air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia located 9 km northwest of Kaliningrad. Most instances in Russian aviation literature of Chkalovsk or Chkalovskoye refer specifically to this large airfield....
naval air base.

City districts

The city is divided into five city districts, called raion

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
s.

City raion (Gorodskoy raion)	Russian name	Inhabitants 1 January 2006	Notes
Baltiyskiy (Baltic raion)	??????????	67.461
Moskovskiy (Moscow raion)	??????????	83.389
Leningradskiy (Leningrad raion)	?????????????	150.757	named after Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea.... , Russia Russia Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
Oktyabrskiy (October raion)	???????????	43.239	named after the October revolution
Tsentralnyy (Central raion)	???????????	78.805	lies to the northwest of the historical city centre

Climate

Cityscape

Museums

]] Kaliningrad has many museums. A few examples are the Immanuel Kant museum on the Kneiphof

Kneiphof

Kneiphof was one of three towns in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights that became the city of K?nigsberg . Kneiphof was originally Knypabe , meaning 'area flushed by water' in Old Prussian....
island, the Museum of History and Arts, which still has parts of the so-called Prussia collection of local archaeological findings, and the Kaliningrad Amber Museum, which is situated in the Dohna tower near the Rossgarten Gate

Rossgarten Gate

File:Rosgartenskie vorota Kaliningrad.jpgThe Rossgarten Gate is one of seven surviving city gates in Kaliningrad. It is located at the intersection of Chernyakhovskogo street and Alexander Nevsky street, near the Vasilevskiy square and the Kaliningrad Amber Museum....
. The city also has an art gallery with eight exhibition rooms.

The Museum of the World's Oceans is located on the former research vessel Wityaz on the shore of the Pregel river. The museum displays the newest technologies on sea research and also shows the diversity of the flora and fauna of the world's oceans. An anchored submarine next to the museum hosts an exhibit about the Russian submarine fleet.

Theatre

The Kaliningrad Philharmonic Orchestra is accommodated in the former Catholic Church of the Holy Family

Church of the Holy Family, Kaliningrad

The Church of the Holy Family is a Gothic Revival architecture brick church in Kaliningrad. It was built in the Haberberg city district of K?nigsberg, near the Pregel river, between 1904 and 1907....
of Königsberg, built in 1907. The church was destroyed during World War II, but rebuilt afterwards. The building, which has noted acoustics, functions as an organ hall since re-opening in 1980.

The city's theater still located in the former Königsberg theater, which was opened in 1910. The building was rebuilt after the war using earlier plans for the theater and opened in 1960. The colonnade in front af the entrance was modeled after the Bolshoi Theatre

Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by the architect Joseph Bov?, which holds performances of ballet and opera....
in Moscow.

The regionally famous Kaliningrad puppet theater has its seat since 1975 in the Queen Louise Remembrance Church. This neoromatic church, designed by architect Fritz Heitmann, was built in 1901.

Architecture

]] The pre-war city centre (Altstadt and Kneiphof) currently consists of parks, broad avenues, a square on the site of the former Königsberg Castle, and only two buildings: the House of the Soviets ("Dom Sovyetov"), roughly on the site of the former Castle, and the restored Königsberg Cathedral

Königsberg Cathedral

K?nigsberg Cathedral is a Brick Gothic style building in Kaliningrad on an island in the Pregel. The island was called Kneiphof in German times....
on the Kneiphof island (now "Kant island"). Immanuel Kant's grave is situated next to the Cathedral. The new city centre is concentrated around Victory Square

Victory Square, Kaliningrad

Ploshchad Pobedy is a central square in Kaliningrad.Up until 1934 the square was named Hansaplatz, and during Nazi Germany the square was known as Adolf-Hitler-Platz....
. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Kaliningrad)

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the Russian city of Kaliningrad is the largest church of Kaliningrad Oblast. It is the dominant building of the inner city and is situated near the central square, called Ploshchad Pobedy ....
, consecrated in 2005, is located on that square.

Also worth seeing are the former Stock Exchange, the surviving churches, and the remaining city gates. In anti-clockwise order these gates are: the Sackheim Gate

Sackheim Gate

File:Sackheimer tor.pngThe Sackheim Gate is one of seven surviving city gates in Kaliningrad. It is located at the intersection of Moscow avenue and Lithuanian wall street....
(German

German language

King's Gate (Kaliningrad)

File:Kingsgate.JPGThe King's Gate is one of the former six gates that were built during the 19th century around Kaliningrad ....
(German

German language

Rossgarten Gate

German language

Brandenburg Gate (Kaliningrad)

File:Kaliningrad Brandenburg Gate.JPGThe Brandenburg Gate or Berlin Gate is one of seven surviving city gates in Kaliningrad, the former German city of K?nigsberg....
(German

German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
: Friedländer Tor). Apart from the already mentioned Dohna tower, which houses the Amber museum, the Wranger tower also remains as a reminder of the former Königsberg city walls. Only the gate of the former Friedrichsburg Castle remains.

Monuments

Worth visiting monuments include the statue of Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German Philosophy from the Kingdom of Prussia city of K?nigsberg . He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Age of Enlightenment....
in front of the Immanuel Kant State University of Russia. The statue was made by famous sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch

Christian Daniel Rauch

Christian Daniel Rauch was a Germany sculpture.Rauch was born at Arolsen in the Principality of Waldeck . His parents were poor and unable to place him under efficient masters....
and unveiled in 1864. The statue was destroyed in 1945, but was remolded in 1992 on the initiative of Marion Dönhoff

Marion Dönhoff

Marion Hedda Ilse Gr?fin von D?nhoff was a Germany journalist who participated in the resistance against Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg....
. Also worth seeing is the Cosmonaut monument, which honors the Kaliningrad cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Yuri Romanenko

Yuri Romanenko

Yuri Victorovitch Romanenko is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union .Had been Commander of:* Soyuz 26* Soyuz 27* Soyuz 38...
and Alexander Viktorenko

Alexander Viktorenko

Alexander Stepanovich Viktorenko is a Soviet cosmonaut. He was born in Olginka, North Kazakhstan, Kazakh SSR on March 29, 1947. He is married with two children....
. Other statues and monuments include the statue for count Albrecht, the statue for Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
, the statue for tsar Peter the Great

Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
, the "Mother Russia" monument, and the Monument for the 1200 Guardsmen, remembering the Battle of Königsberg

Battle of Königsberg

Parks

The Kaliningrad Zoo

Kaliningrad Zoo

The Kaliningrad Zoo was founded in 1896 as the K?nigsberg Tiergarten in the then German town of K?nigsberg, which in 1945 became part of Russia and was renamed Kaliningrad....
was opened as the Königsberg Zoo in 1896. It is the oldest zoo of Russia, and also one of the largest. The collection, which extends over 16.5 ha

Hectare

A hectare is a unit of area equal to , or one square hectometre , and commonly used for surveying.The hectare is used in most countries around the world, especially in domains concerned with land ownership, land planning, and land management, including law , agriculture, forestry, and town planning....
, comprises 315 species with a total of 2264 individual animals (as of 2005). The Kaliningrad zoo is also an arboretum

Arboretum

An arboretum is a collection of trees. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study....
.

Culture

Music

Cuisine

Kaliningrad has its own vodka

Vodka

Vodka is a distilled beverage. It is a clear liquid which consists of mostly water and ethanol purified by distillation ? often multiple distillation ? from a Fermentation substance, such as cereal , potatoes or sugar beet molasses, and an insignificant amount of other substances such as flavorings or unintended impurities....
and beer

Beer

Beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and Fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal?the most common of which is malted barley, although wheat, maize , and rice are widely used....
brand, Stari Konigsberg and Ostmark respectively. Since the early 1990s many new restaurants have opened in the city. These restaurants offer culinary specialties of former East Prussia

East Prussia

Königsberger Klopse

K?nigsberger Klopse, also known as So?klopse, is a German specialty of meatballs in a white sauce with capers.The dish is named for the Prussian city of K?nigsberg and is one of the glories of East Prussian cuisine....
, but also many fish and salad dishes, Italian pizza and sushi

Sushi

In Japanese cuisine, is vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients, including fish dishes. In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi, as sashimi is the raw fish component, not the rice component....
, which is as popular in Kaliningrad as in the rest of Russia. Königsberger Fleck, a bovine tripe soup and yet another culinary specialty from former Königsberg, no longer belongs to the eating culture of Kaliningrad.

The people of Kaliningrad generally imported their respective culinary traditions to the region when they settled in the area after 1945. Borshch and okroshka

Okroshka

Okroshka is Russian cold soup. The name originates from the Russian "kroshit" which means to chop into small pieces.The classic soup is a mix of mostly raw vegetables , boiled potatoes, eggs, ham with kvass or so called bread drink, which is a fermented mildly alcoholic beverage made from black or rye bread....
are very popular, like in the rest of Russia.

Transportation

Kaliningrad's airport

Khrabrovo Airport

Khrabrovo Airport is located 24 km north of Kaliningrad, east off the Zelenogradsk highway. The airport, part of which is still military, is a bare landing strip with few frills for passengers....
is located near Khrabrovo. The airport mainly connects Kaliningrad to other Russian cities, but also offers flights to cities in Western Europe and Israel. In Baltiysk

Baltiysk

Saint Petersburg

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
, Riga

Riga

Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
, and Kiel

Kiel

Kiel is the Capital and most populous city of the northern Germany state Schleswig-Holstein.Kiel is approximately 90 km to the north of Hamburg....
. Kaliningrad's international train station is Kaliningrad Passazhirskiy, which in German times was known as Königsberg Hauptbahnhof. Trains depart in the directions of Malbork

Malbork

Malbork is a town in northern Poland in the Zulawy region, with 41,000 inhabitants . Situated in the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, it was previously assigned to Elblag Voivodeship ....
, Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, Baltiysk

Baltiysk

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
, Minsk

Minsk

Minsk is the Capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach River and Nemiga rivers. Minsk is also a headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States ....
, Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv , or Kharkov is the second largest city in Ukraine.It was the first capital of Soviet Ukraine, now the Capital of the Kharkiv Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Kharkiv Oblast within the oblast....
, Anapa

Anapa

Anapa originally is a seaport for the Natkhuay tribe Adyghe people , and now a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea near the Sea of Azov....
, and Bagrationovsk

Bagrationovsk

Bagrationovsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located some 37 km south of Kaliningrad. Population: ...
. A unique feature of the Kaliningrad railway is that the track in the direction of Berlin has a normal gauge, instead of the common Russian broad gauge

Broad gauge

Broad gauge railways use a rail gauge greater than the standard gauge of ....
.

Regional trains depart from Kaliningrad Severnyy, the former Königsberg Nordbahnhof, which is situated on Victory Square

Victory Square, Kaliningrad

Zelenogradsk

Zelenogradsk, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Located on the Sambian coastline near the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea, the town is a popular weekend resort for vacationers from Kaliningrad, located 30 km to the south....
and Svetlogorsk

Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast

Svetlogorsk, prior to 1945 known by its German name Rauschen is a town on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast....
and also once a day to Sovetsk

Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast

Sovetsk , which was known by its German language name of Tilsit before 1945, is a types of settlements in Russia now in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia on the south bank of the Neman River....
.

In 1881 the Königsberg tramway was opened, and it still functions to this day. In 1975 also a trolleybus

Trolleybus

A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from a network of charged overhead wires using spring loaded trolley poles. Two poles are needed, so that one can draw down the live current to power the motor and the other can complete the circuit by carrying the neutral current back to the network....
system was introduced.

Economy

In 1996 Kaliningrad was designated a Special Economic Zone

Special Economic Zone

A Special Economic Zone is a geographical region that has economic laws that are more liberal than a country's typical economic laws. The category 'SEZ' covers a broad range of more specific zone types, including Free Trade Zones , Export Processing Zones , Free Zones , Industrial Estates , Free Ports, Urban Enterprise Zones and others....
. Manufacturers based there get tax

Tax

To tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon an individual or Legal person by a state or the functional equivalent of a state.Taxes are also imposed by many subnational entity....
and customs duty breaks on the goods they send back to Russia. Although corruption

Political corruption

Political corruption is the use of governmental powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption....
was an early deterrent, that policy means the region is now a manufacturing hub. One in three televisions in Russia is made in Kaliningrad, and it is home to Hummer

Hummer

Hummer is a brand of off-road vehicles sold by General Motors . The original H1 was based on the military High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle ....
and BMW

BMW

, is an independent German automotive industry founded in 1916. It also produces BMW Motorrad, is the owner of the MINI brand and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars....
car plants. Now Kaliningrad's major industries are manufacturing, shipping, fishing and amber products. Moscow has declared it will turn the region into "the Russian Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
".

The European Commission

European Commission

The European Commission is the executive of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Treaties of the European Union and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
provides funds for business

Business

A business is a legally recognized organization designed to provide good s and/or Service to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalism economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners....
projects under its special programme for Kaliningrad. The region has begun to see increasing trade

Trade

Tradeis the willing exchange of goods, Service , or both. Trade is also called commerce. A mechanism that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter , the direct exchange of goods and services....
with the countries of the EU as well as increasing economic growth

Economic growth

Economic growth is the increase in the amount of the goods and services produced by an economics over time. It is conventionally measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product, or real GDP....
and rising industrial output. With an average GDP growth of more than 10% per year for three years to 2007, Kaliningrad is growing faster than any other region in Russia, even outstripping the success of its EU neighbours.

Military

Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia....
is the most heavily militarized area of the Russian Federation, and the density of military infrastructure is the highest in Europe. It was the headquarters of the former Soviet Baltic Military District

Baltic Military District

The Baltic Military District was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the Operation Barbarossa, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991....
. Kaliningrad also functions as the headquarters of the Russian Baltic Fleet

Baltic Fleet

The Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet - , was the Imperial Russian Navy, later Soviet Navy, and is now the Russian Navy's presence in the Baltic Sea....
, circled by Chernyakhovsk (air base)

Chernyakhovsk (air base)

Chernyakhovsk – – is a naval air base located 4 km southwest of the city of Chernyakhovsk in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It is a medium sized interceptor airfield, listed as a nuclear bomber base by a Natural Resources Defense Council study....
, Donskoye (air base)

Donskoye (air base)

Donskoye is an air base in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia located 1 km east of Donskoye . It is a very old airfield probably dating back to World War II, nearly at Russia's most extreme western point....
and Kaliningrad Chkalovsk

Kaliningrad Chkalovsk

Sports

Kaliningrad is home to the football club FC Baltika Kaliningrad

FC Baltika Kaliningrad

Baltika is a Russian football club based in Kaliningrad. Currently the club plays in the Russian First Division....
, which plays in the Russian First Division

Russian First Division

The Russian First Division is the second level of Russian professional football . The division is run by Russian Professional Football League....
.

Notable residents

See also: List of people from Königsberg
List of people from Königsberg

The following is a list of people from the former city of K?nigsberg , which was renamed to Kaliningrad, in 1946....

Writers

Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German Philosophy from the Kingdom of Prussia city of K?nigsberg . He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Age of Enlightenment....
(1724-1804), philosopher
Sergey Snegov (1910–1994), science fiction writer

Athletes

Sergei Beloglazov
Sergei Beloglazov

Sergei Alekseevich Beloglazov is one of the greatest modern wrestling. He trained at the Armed Forces in Kaliningrad in 1976-77 and at Dynamo in Kiev since 1979....
(born 1956) Olympic
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
wrestler
Alexander Volkov
Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov

Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov is a former professional tennis player from Russia.Volkov turned professional in 1988. In 1990, when he stunned the tennis world by defeating World No....
(born 1967), tennis player
Max Levintas (born 1953), karate coach, Distinguished Coach of Russia (highest coaching honor in Russian sports)

Cosmonauts

Aleksei Leonov
Aleksei Leonov

Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov , , is a retired Soviet Union/Russian astronaut and Soviet Air Forces General who, on March 18, 1965, became the first human to Extra-vehicular activity....
(born 1934), first person to walk in space
Extra-vehicular activity

Extra-vehicular activity is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth, and outside of a spacecraft. The term most commonly applies to an EVA made outside a craft orbiting Earth , but also applies to an EVA made on the surface of the Moon ....
Viktor Patsayev
Viktor Patsayev

Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet Union astronaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a manned space mission....
(1933–1971)
Yuri Romanenko
Yuri Romanenko

Yuri Victorovitch Romanenko is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union .Had been Commander of:* Soyuz 26* Soyuz 27* Soyuz 38...
(born 1944)
Alexander Viktorenko
Alexander Viktorenko

Alexander Stepanovich Viktorenko is a Soviet cosmonaut. He was born in Olginka, North Kazakhstan, Kazakh SSR on March 29, 1947. He is married with two children....
(born 1947)

Others

Oleg Gazmanov
Oleg Gazmanov

Oleg Mikhaylovich Gazmanov is a Russian Pop music singer, composer and poet, specializing in patriotic songs that glorify Russia and Russian history....
(born 1951), singer
Lyudmila Putina
Lyudmila Putina

Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina is the wife of former Russian President of the Russian Federation and current Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin....
(born 1958), wife of Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus....
, former First Lady
First Lady

First Lady is a term used in the United States to describe the wife of an elected male head of state. It originated in 1849, when President of the United States Zachary Taylor called Dolley Madison "First Lady" at her state funeral while reciting a eulogy written by himself....
of Russia
Tvangeste
Tvangeste

Tvangeste is a Symphonic metal#Symphonic black metal band from Russia ....
, black metal band
Sergei Orlov M.D., Ph.D (born 1961), neurosurgeon

Twin Towns - Sister Cities

Kaliningrad is twinned

Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
with:

Murmansk

Murmansk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and seaport in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland....
in Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
Gdansk

Gdansk

Gdansk is the city at the centre of the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is Poland's principal seaport as well as the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship....
in Poland

Poland

Gdynia

Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport at Gdansk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdansk and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity...
in Poland

Poland

Torun

Torun is a city in northern Poland, on the Vistula River, with population over 207,190 as of 2006, making it the second largest city of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, after Bydgoszcz....
in Poland

Poland

Bialystok

Bialystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the second-densely populated city of the country. It is located near Poland's border with Belarus and is the capital of the Podlachia region....
in Poland

Poland

Zabrze

Zabrze is a city in southern Poland with 194,041 inhabitants . Zabrze is part of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, the largest legally-recognized urban entity in Poland with a population of 2.2 million....
in Poland

Poland

Lódz

L?dz is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 753,192 in 2007. It is the capital of L?dz Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw....
in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
(since 1992) Olsztyn
Olsztyn

Olsztyn is a city in northeastern Poland, on the Lyna River.Historically the capital of the Warmia region, Olsztyn has been the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999....
in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
Malmö
Malmö

is the third most populous urban areas in Sweden in Sweden, situated in its southernmost province of Scania.Malm? is the seat of Malm? Municipality and the capital of Sk?ne County....
in Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
Kiel
Kiel

Kiel is the Capital and most populous city of the northern Germany state Schleswig-Holstein.Kiel is approximately 90 km to the north of Hamburg....
in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
Norfolk
Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Virginia in the United States. With a population of 234,403 as of the United States Census 2000, it is Virginia's second-largest incorporated city....
in Virginia
Virginia

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, United States
United States

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Kalmar, Sweden

Mexico City

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in Mexico

Mexico

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Groningen

Groningen (city)

||-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |}Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. With a population of 185,000, it is by far the largest city in the north of the Netherlands....
in Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
Klaipeda

Klaipeda

Klaipeda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Curonian Lagoon where it flows into the Baltic Sea. As Lithuania's only seaport, it has ferry terminal connections to Sweden and Germany....
in Lithuania

Lithuania

Šiauliai

?iauliai is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 129,075. It is the capital of ?iauliai County. Unofficially, the city is the capital of Northern Lithuania....
in Lithuania

Lithuania

Cork (city)

Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the Ireland third most populous city after Dublin and Belfast. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the Provinces of Ireland of Munster....
in Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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Aalborg

Aalborg

Aalborg is a city in Denmark. Its population, as of 2008, is 121,818, making it the fourth largest in the country after Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense....
in Denmark

Denmark

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Kaliningrad

History

As Königsberg

Soviet Union

Russian Federation

Geography

City districts

Climate

Cityscape

Museums

Theatre

Architecture

Monuments

Parks

Culture

Music

Cuisine

Transportation

Economy

Military

Sports

Notable residents

Twin Towns - Sister Cities

See also

External links