Sovetsk (Russian: Сове́тск; German: Tilsit [ˈtɪlzɪt] ; Old Prussian: Tilzi; Lithuanian: Tilžė) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the...
22 KB (2,587 words) - 18:10, 4 December 2024
Kaliningrad, known as Königsberg until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and...
108 KB (11,262 words) - 21:07, 21 December 2024
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область, romanized: Kaliningradskaya oblastʹ) is the westernmost federal subject of the Russian Federation...
81 KB (7,943 words) - 16:44, 20 December 2024
The cultural heritage of Kaliningrad Oblast is a mixture of the pre-World War II German, Lithuanian and Polish heritage, dating back to the Ducal Prussian...
13 KB (1,132 words) - 12:13, 4 November 2024
Neman, Russia (redirect from Neman, Kaliningrad Oblast)
is a town and the administrative center of Nemansky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located in the historic region of Lithuania Minor, on the...
13 KB (1,520 words) - 10:21, 28 November 2024
located in Kaliningrad Oblast, with its headquarters in the city of Gusev. The corps was formed on 1 April 2016, and operates from Kaliningrad Oblast. Its first...
15 KB (1,333 words) - 23:07, 1 November 2024
Baltic Fleet (category Kaliningrad)
Rifle Brigade re-formed as a regiment - Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) 11th Tank Regiment (Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast) (Military Unit Number V/Ch (в/ч) 41611)...
92 KB (7,760 words) - 16:49, 31 October 2024
John Kay (musician) (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
born on April 12, 1944 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). His father Fritz, born 1913 in Absteinen near Pogegen...
15 KB (919 words) - 17:53, 16 November 2024
Armin Mueller-Stahl (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Golden Bear. Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). His mother, Editta, was from an upper-class family...
17 KB (1,609 words) - 17:29, 4 December 2024
Prussia (region) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
extends inland as far as Masuria, divided between Poland, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Lithuania. This region is often also referred to as Old Prussia...
67 KB (7,176 words) - 20:47, 18 December 2024
German invasion during World War II. After the end of the war the Kaliningrad Oblast was added to the District's control in 1946, and the territory of...
20 KB (2,334 words) - 08:10, 26 October 2024
Eastern Low Prussian (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Russia), Memelland (Klaipėda County, Lithuania), and Tilsit (Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) in the eastern territories of East Prussia in the former...
4 KB (348 words) - 20:16, 3 November 2024
Bagrationovsk (category Cities and towns in Kaliningrad Oblast)
Bagrationovsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located close to the border with Poland, 37 kilometers (23 mi) south of Kaliningrad, the administrative...
15 KB (1,668 words) - 15:34, 23 October 2024
East Prussia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
divided at Joseph Stalin's insistence between the Soviet Union (the Kaliningrad Oblast became part of the Russian SFSR, and the constituent counties of the...
98 KB (8,964 words) - 21:03, 20 December 2024
Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands (1992) Milanówek, Poland (2001) Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (2001) Werlte, Germany (2005) Mauritius Ferber (1471–1537)...
12 KB (1,061 words) - 03:08, 15 November 2024
Ukraine Former twin towns and friendly towns (until 2022): Kaliningrad, Russia Sovetsk/Tilsit, Russia "GYVENTOJAI GYVENAMOSIOSE VIETOVĖSE". Osp.stat...
9 KB (881 words) - 01:48, 27 October 2024
published annually in 1823–1824/1825 in Tilsit (present-day Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast) by the Evangelical Missionary Society of Königsberg (German:...
6 KB (645 words) - 23:07, 3 November 2024
Lithuania Minor (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Lithuanians (or Lietuvininkai) lived, now located in Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. Lithuania Minor encompassed the northeastern part of the...
63 KB (7,432 words) - 08:25, 17 November 2024
Slavsk (category Cities and towns in Kaliningrad Oblast)
center of Slavsky District in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located 105 kilometers (65 mi) northeast of Kaliningrad. Population figures: 4,614 (2010...
6 KB (847 words) - 15:57, 27 October 2024
a common border through Kaliningrad Oblast. Lithuania has an embassy in Moscow with consulates in Kaliningrad and in Sovetsk, whereas Russia has an embassy...
43 KB (4,409 words) - 18:41, 3 November 2024
Wilhelm Voigt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Voigt was born in Tilsit, Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast). In 1863, aged 14, he was sentenced to 14 days in prison for...
12 KB (1,509 words) - 00:22, 10 December 2024
active from 1879 to about 1923 in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast). It was the first scientific society dedicated to Lithuanian...
9 KB (985 words) - 09:48, 26 November 2024
Wolf children (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
October 1947, the Soviets decided to resettle 30,000 Germans from Kaliningrad Oblast in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany by train. In 1947, the Soviet...
27 KB (3,311 words) - 15:39, 1 November 2024
Baltiysk and Kronshtadt, with its headquarters in the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast. The Fleet consists of the following units: Sovremenny-class...
145 KB (12,782 words) - 14:04, 10 December 2024
edu/victor_ivrii_Publications/vita.pdf Victor Ivrii was born October 1, 1949 in Sovetsk, USSR ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers V. Ivrii' C.V. V. Ya. Ivrii, V M...
8 KB (672 words) - 07:19, 16 July 2024
Thingspiele (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
(now Myślibórz, Poland) 1939? Stolzenau 10 May 1934 Tilsit (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) 30 April 1935 Werder 1936–38? Stommer lists the following...
20 KB (2,189 words) - 10:20, 22 June 2024
fleets or from the Caspian Flotilla. In 2021, the Karakurt-class corvette Sovetsk also made the transit from the Baltic to the White Sea for missile exercises...
141 KB (10,943 words) - 19:49, 20 October 2024
employed with Eichmann, Dieter Wisliceny, Theodor Dannecker, Hermann Krumey [de], Siegfried Seidl, and Franz Novak in Hungary, to oversee the deportation...
3 KB (281 words) - 22:16, 7 May 2024
was part of OKW. The regiment was under the command of an Oberstleutnant de Bary, the Gruppenleiter and executive chief of WNV/FU III. This change was...
151 KB (22,405 words) - 14:19, 10 December 2024
Kiel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
(1985) Kaliningrad, Russia (1992) Kherson, Ukraine (2024) Moshi Rural District, Tanzania (2009) Samsun, Turkey (2010) San Francisco, USA (2017) Sovetsk, Russia...
50 KB (4,194 words) - 04:12, 28 November 2024