Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad Калининград
City
Church of the Holy Family; Königsberg Cathedral; "Fishermen's village" in pseudo-historic style; Brandenburg Gate; King's Gate; Pregolya River
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: none[1]
Location of Kaliningrad
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Coordinates: 54°42′01″N 20°27′11″E / 54.70028°N 20.45306°E / 54.70028; 20.45306
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Kaliningrad Oblast
Founded	1 September 1255[2]
Government
• Body	City Council of Deputies[3]
• Head[3]	Alexey Silanov[4]
Area [2]
• Total	223.03 km2 (86.11 sq mi)
Elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Population  (2010 Census)[5]
• Total	431,402
• Estimate  (January 2018)[6]	475,056
• Rank	40th in 2010
• Density	1,900/km2 (5,000/sq mi)
Administrative status
• Subordinated to	city of oblast significance of Kaliningrad
• Capital of	Kaliningrad Oblast, city of oblast significance of Kaliningrad
Municipal status
• Urban okrug	Kaliningrad Urban Okrug
• Capital of	Kaliningrad Urban Okrug
Time zone	UTC+2 (MSK–1 [7])
Postal code(s)[8]	236001 - 236999
Dialing code(s)	+7 4012
OKTMO ID	27701000001
City Day	4 July; observed on the first Saturday of July
Twin towns	Zeitz, Bremerhaven, Omsk, Brest, Cagliari, Cherbourg-Octeville, Dalian, Yerevan, Forlì, Gomel, Guyuan, Hamburg, Hrodna, Krasnoyarsk, Minsk, Potsdam, Samara, Severodvinsk, Yaroslavl, Baranavichy, Patras, Karlshamn Municipality, Bodenwerder, Kalininsky District, Mühlhausen, Catania
Website	www.klgd.ru

Kaliningrad (Russian: Калинингра́д; Lithuanian: Karaliaučius; German: Königsberg (help·info); Polish: Królewiec; briefly Russified as Russian: Кёнигсберг Kyonigsberg) is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. Kaliningrad is the second-largest city in the Northwestern Federal District, after Saint Petersburg, the third-largest city in the Baltic region and the seventh-largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is the westernmost Oblast of Russia.

It is surrounded by NATO and European Union members Poland and Lithuania and is geographically separated from the main part of Russia itself. Borderless connection is only possible by sea or air.

In 2002, it had a population of 430,003 people. This was more than in 1989, when the last census was done. At that time, the city only had a population of 401,280. About 78% of the people there are Russians, 8% Belarusians, and 7.3% Ukrainians.^[9]

Until World War II the people were mostly Germans. Many fled during the war, and the rest were expelled between 1946 and 1949.

It was named Königsberg originally. The city had that name from 1254 to 1945.

1. ↑ Article 6 of the Charter of Kaliningrad states that the city may have an anthem, providing one is officially adopted. As of 2015^[update], an anthem is not listed among the symbols of the city shown on the official website of Kaliningrad.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Official website of Kaliningrad. Passport of Kaliningrad Urban Okrug. (in Russian)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Charter of Kaliningrad, Article 25
4. ↑ Official website of Kaliningrad. Head of the City, Alexander Georgiyevich Yaroshuk. (in Russian)
5. ↑ Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
6. ↑ Kaliningrad Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Оценка численности населения Калининградской области по состоянию на 1 января 2018 года (in Russian)
7. ↑ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
8. ↑ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
9. ↑ Kaliningrad Oblast