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Kaliningrad Devau Airport (German: Flughafen Königsberg-Devau) is a small general aviation airfield and sport airport located 3.5 km (2.2 mi) northeast of Kaliningrad. [citation needed] Opened in 1922 as the main airport of Königsberg, it was one of the first airports purpose-built for civilian passengers. [1]
Königsberg (German: [ˈkøːnɪçsbɛʁk] ⓘ, lit. 'King's mountain', Polish: Królewiec, Lithuanian: Karaliaučius, Baltic Prussian: Kunnegsgarbs, Russian: Кёнигсберг, romanized: Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad, [a] known as Königsberg [b] until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland. The city sits about 663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia.
After 1945, the Soviet Union annexed the East Prussia and made transformed it into their naval base, and changed the name of Königsberg to Kaliningrad. Furthermore, Soviets moved the headquarters of their Baltic Fleet from Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad.
Kaliningrad has the only airport in the region - the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna International Airport (Khrabrovo). This airport regularly accepts flights from Belarus, some European cities and many major Russian cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Sochi, Kazan, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Syktyvkar.
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Known by its German name of Königsberg then, the city was the capital of Prussia. Kaliningrad was a hub for science and culture whizzes from Germany, Poland and Lithuania. The famous mathematical Königsberg bridge problem is based in the city.
