Kybartai is a city in the Marijampolė County

Marijampole County

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, Lithuania

Lithuania

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. It is located 20 km (12.4 mi) west of Vilkaviškis

Vilkaviškis

Vilkaviškis Until 1940 the city had a large Jewish Community which was annihilated by the Nazis and their local collaborators. The whole Jewish population was killed in a single day,, after the entry of the Germans into the city.-Names:...

 and is on the border of Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast

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, Russia

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.
It is the birthplace of famous classical Russian landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian language

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: Исаак Ильич Левитан, 1860–1900), Polish composer Emil Młynarski and Lithuanian singer Inga Valinskienė.

When in 1861 a branch of Saint Petersburg – Warsaw Railway was built from Vilnius

Vilnius

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 to the Prussia

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n border, where it was linked to Prussian Eastern Railway, the Russian border station near the village of Kybartai was named after the neighbouring town of Verzhbolovo (Вержболово), Lithuanian Virbalis

Virbalis

Virbalis is a city in the Vilkaviškis district municipality, Lithuania. It is located west of Vilkaviškis.As German Wirballen, Polish Wierzbołów, or Russian Verzhbolovo , it is frequently mentioned in historical as well in modern literature...

, German Wirballen. Meanwhile Kybartai has become a town bigger than Virbalis and the now Lithuanian border station station is called Kybartai, too. The once German station of the Prussian Eastern Railway on the western side of the frontier was Eydtkuhnen, today it is the Russian border station and called Chernyshevskoye

Chernyshevskoye

Chernyshevskoye is a settlement in Nesterovsky District in the eastern part of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, on the border with Lithuania.Between Chernyshevskoye and Lithuanian Kybartai is an important 24-hour border crossing point on the A229 principal road and the railway route connecting...

(Чернышевское).