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German Exonyms (Kaliningrad Oblast)
This is a list of German names for inhabited localities in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. {, class="wikitable sortable" style="width:50%; text-align:left" ! Russian name{{small, Inhabited locations with a population of over 5,000 are in bold!! German name , - , Alexeyevka , , Klein Kackschen (Kleinbirkenhain) , - , Aprelevka , , Wargienen , - , Arkhangelskoye , , Ebenhausen , - , Artemovka , , Argenhof , - , Babushkino , , Groß Degesen , - , Bagrationovsk , , Preußisch Eylau , - , Baltiysk , , Pillau , - , Bayevka , , Klukeim , - , Belabino , , Schiedelau , - , Belkino , , Langenfelde , - , Belomorskoye , , Hindenburg , - , Bereskovskoye , , Waldhausen , - , Beresovka , , Groß Sausgarten , - , Beresovo , , Schönbaum , - , Biserovo , , Tawellningken , - , Bobrovo , , Ellernthal , - , Bobrovo , , Groß Rudminnen (Wietzheim) , - , Bogatovo , , Elchenrode , - , Bogatovo , , Rositten , - , Bolgorukovo , , Domtau , - , Bolshakovo , , Kreuzinge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernyakhovsk
Chernyakhovsk (russian: Черняхо́вск) – known prior to 1946 by its German name of (Old Prussian: Instrāpils, lt, Įsrutis; pl, Wystruć) – is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, where it is the administrative center of Chernyakhovsky District. Located at the confluence of the Instruch and Angrapa rivers, which unite to become the Pregolya river below Chernyakhovsk, the town had a population in 2017 of 36,423. History Chernyakhovsk was founded in 1336 by the Teutonic Knights on the site of a former Old Prussian fortification when Dietrich von Altenburg, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, built a castle called ''Insterburg'' following the Prussian Crusade. During the Teutonic Knights' Northern Crusades campaign against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the town was devastated in 1376. The castle had been rebuilt as the seat of a Procurator and a settlement also named ''Insterburg'' grew up to serve it. In 1454, Polish King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brusovo
Brusovo (russian: Брусово) is the name of several rural localities In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are des ... in Russia: * Brusovo, Irkutsk Oblast, a settlement in Tayshetsky District of Irkutsk Oblast * Brusovo, Tver Oblast, a settlement in Brusovskoye Rural Settlement of Udomelsky District in Tver Oblast {{Set index article, populated places in Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolshie Berski
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English as the Bolshevists,. It signifies both Bolsheviks and adherents of Bolshevik policies. were a far-left, revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that split with the Mensheviks from the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898, at its Second Party Congress in 1903. After forming their own party in 1912, the Bolsheviks took power during the October Revolution in the Russian Republic in November 1917, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, and became the only ruling party in the subsequent Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union. They considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary proletariat of Russia. Their bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolshaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast
Bolshaya Polyana (russian: Большая Поляна), formerly known in German as ' ( lt, Petragirė) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Znamensky Rural Okrug of Gvardeysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Notable people *Johannes Blaskowitz (1883-1948) German Wehrmacht general during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ... Rural localities in Kaliningrad Oblast {{KaliningradOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolshakovo
Bolshakovo (russian: Большако́во, pl, Skajzgiry, lt, Didieji Skaisgiriai, german: Groß Skaisgirren or ' (1938-1946)), also referred to as Bolshakovo-Novoye (russian: Большако́во-Новое), is a settlement located in the southern part of Slavsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, 90 km from Kaliningrad. The adjective "Novoye" (new) is sometimes used to distinguish it from an eponymous village in Ivanovo Oblast of Russia. It is situated on the road from Talpaki to Sovetsk. There are also roads from Bolshakovo to Polessk and to Chernyakhovsk. Bolshakovo is a railway station on the Kaliningrad–Sovetsk line. Bolshakovo lies on the border of Polessk Lowland in a marsh landscape and has approximately 2,000 inhabitants. Bolshakovo is a transmission site of the ''Voice of Russia'' broadcasting station, the Bolshakovo transmitter. History In 1454, the region was incorporated by King Casimir IV Jagiellon to the Kingdom of Poland upon the requ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
