It became one of the cities of the Hanseatic League and was once the capital of Prussia ... During the Soviet period, the Kaliningrad oblast or region, administratively part of the Russian ...

Today the capital is characterized by drab concrete ... it was designed in 1960 to be the central administration center of the Kaliningrad Oblast. It was built upon the ruins of Königsberg ...

the Kaliningrad Oblast is sandwiched between Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic Sea. At 15,100sq km, Kaliningrad is larger than Lebanon, Cyprus and the Bahamas, and is roughly equivalent to half the ...

Kaliningrad is Russia's westernmost region, or oblast. It is an exclave ... s size), and has a population of roughly a million. Its capital is the eponymous city of Kaliningrad, where about ...

The isolated oblast is reachable through a contentious strip of land known as the Suwałki Gap, linking Russian ally Belarus to Kaliningrad ... year that Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania ...

Even though the old inhabitants of Lithuania Minor, now part of the so-called Kaliningrad Oblast, are long gone ... because they received their present capital and the Vilnius region as a gift ...

Tensions are mounting around the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, an isolated but strategically ... the majority of whom live within or near the capital city of the same name.