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    The House of Soviets (‹See Tfd›Russian: Дом Советов, romanized: Dom Sovetov) was an unfinished building in the center of the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad...
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  • House of Soviets (Дом советов) or House of the Soviets may refer to: House of Soviets (Kaliningrad), an incomplete building on the site of Königsberg Castle...
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    Kaliningrad, known as Königsberg until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania...
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    spread of Soviet-style prefabricated panel buildings eventually changed the appearance of Kaliningrad. The 1970s House of Soviets is another part of the...
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    Kaliningrad Oblast (‹See Tfd›Russian: Калининградская область, romanized: Kaliningradskaya oblastʹ) is the westernmost federal subject of the Russian...
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    Kaliningrad question is a political question concerning the status of Kaliningrad Oblast as an exclave of Russia, and its isolation from the rest of the...
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  • former Königsberg Castle and the House of Soviets. In 2013, the Non-governmental organization Urban Planning Bureau "Heart of the City" (Russian name: Градостроительное...
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  • underground shopping arcade at Cornell University, by Earl Flansburgh House of Soviets (Kaliningrad), designed by Yulian L. Shvartsbreim; never completed as a functional...
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  • the University of Northampton. House of Soviets, Kaliningrad, Russia – "The ugliest building on Russian soil".[citation needed] School of Architecture,...
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    former press-center of 1980 Summer Olympics, Moscow, (1976–1979) TASS building, Moscow, V. S. Egerev, (1977) House of Soviets (Kaliningrad), (1985) Novobeogradski...
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    Prussian: Tilzi; Lithuanian: Tilžė) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania...
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    Königsberg Castle (category Castles of the Teutonic Knights)
    Felipe (November 22, 2017). "When @fotostrasse visited the House of Soviets in Kaliningrad, Russia". Fotostrasse. Retrieved April 4, 2019. "В Калининграде...
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    Census); 19,936 (1989 Soviet census). The town is located on the bank of the Kaliningrad sea shipping channel connecting Kaliningrad with the Baltic Sea...
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    (24 mi) northwest of Kaliningrad. Population figures: 16,099 (2021 Census); 10,772 (2010 Census); 10,950 (2002 Census); 11,881 (1989 Soviet census). Svetlogorsk...
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    German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was founded in 1255 on the site of the small Old Prussian settlement...
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    settlement) in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Sambian Peninsula, about 40 kilometers (25 mi) from Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast...
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    town and the administrative center of Gusevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Pissa and Krasnaya Rivers, near...
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    Königsberg Cathedral (category Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Kaliningrad Oblast)
    nearby includes the House of Soviets. Shortly after Kaliningrad was opened to foreigners in the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, work began...
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    formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Tenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic...
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    northeast of Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast. Population figures: 11,798 (2010 Census); 12,714 (2002 Census); 13,821 (1989 Soviet census)...
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    university located in the exclave of Kaliningrad, Russia. It is the oldest university in the Kaliningrad region, formed on the land of the former East Prussia and...
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    The Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum is a museum located in the Russian city of Kaliningrad devoted to housing and displaying amber artworks. It is located...
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    Company Kaliningrad Amber Combine (Russian: Калининградский янтарный комбинат) is the only official amber mine in Russia, located in Yantarny, Kaliningrad Oblast...
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    Tfd›German: Neukuhren (pronunciation); Lithuanian: Kuršiai) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located along the Baltic Sea on the Sambian Peninsula...
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    Mikhail Kalinin (category Signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
    East Prussian city of Königsberg, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1945, was renamed Kaliningrad after him a year later. The city of Tver was also known...
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    Suwałki Gap (category Instances of Lang-be using second unnamed parameter)
    Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast on the Polish side of the border. Named after the Polish town of Suwałki, this choke point has become of great strategic...
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    settlement in the Bagrationovsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located 20 kilometers (12 mi) south of Kaliningrad. In 1240, the Teutonic Knights founded...
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    Kaliningrad Central Park (Russian: Центральный парк Калининграда) is a park in Kaliningrad, Russia. It was known as Luisenwahl while part of Königsberg...
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    the central square in Kaliningrad, Russia. Prior to 1945, the square was part of Königsberg, Germany. Steindamm Gate, part of the city's northwestern...
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    Lyudmila Putina (category People from Kaliningrad)
    current president and former prime minister of Russia. Lyudmila was born in Kaliningrad, as the daughter of Alexander (his patronym is reported variously...
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