Lermontovo () is a residential area in
Tsentralny Administrative District, Kaliningrad, Russia. It was formerly known by its German name Charlottenburg first as a suburban estate and then as part of northwestern
Königsberg
Königsberg (; ; ; ; ; ; , ) is the historic Germany, German and Prussian name of the city now called Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was founded in 1255 on the site of the small Old Prussians, Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teuton ...
, Germany.
History
Charlottenburg was located northwest of
Hufen and
Hardershof Hardershof was a suburban estate and then a Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter of northern Königsberg, Germany. Its territory is now part of the Tsentralny Administrative District, Kaliningrad, Tsentralny District of Kaliningrad, Russia.
History ...
, west of
Ballieth, and southeast of
Tannenwalde.
Sophia Charlotte was the queen-consort of
Frederick I Frederick I or Friedrich I may refer to:
* Frederick of Utrecht or Frederick I (815/16–834/38), Bishop of Utrecht.
* Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine (942–978)
* Frederick I, Duke of Swabia (1050–1105)
* Frederick I ...
, the first
King in Prussia
King ''in'' Prussia (German language, German: ''König in Preußen'') was a title used by the Prussian kings (also in personal union Elector of Brandenburg, Electors of Brandenburg) from 1701 to 1772. Subsequently, they used the title King ''of' ...
. Molded bricks for the construction of the
University of Königsberg
The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...
's new campus came from a pottery factory near Charlottenburg. It developed into a residential
garden town suburb of Königsberg in the first half of the 20th century. Charlottenburg was incorporated into the city of Königsberg in 1939.
[Gause III, p. 133]
Königsberg was transferred to
Soviet
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
control in 1945 after
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. Königsberg was subsequently renamed as ''Kaliningrad'' and Charlottenburg as ''Lermontovo'' after
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...
.
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Geography of Kaliningrad
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