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Local self-government in the city is carried out on the basis of the Charter, which was adopted by the City Council of Deputies of Kaliningrad on July 12, 2007. Bodies and officials of local self-government in the city (formally – in the city district) Kaliningrad are: Council of Deputies (representative body of a municipal formation)
A Baltic port city, it successively became the capital of the State of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia and the provinces of East Prussia and Prussia. Königsberg remained the coronation city of the Prussian monarchy from 1701 onwards, though the capital was Berlin.
East Prussia [Note 1] was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad).
8 lip 2022 · Until 1945 Kaliningrad was the German, or more accurately East Prussian, city of Königsberg. Immanuel Kant, the philosopher who never left the region, even became a Russian briefly when ...
17 maj 2021 · Seventy-five years ago, the East Prussian metropolis of Königsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city in the Soviet Union. Today, its heritage is contributing to the region’s rising...
23 paź 2024 · History of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly the German city of Konigsberg. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. Formerly the capital of East Prussia, Kaliningrad was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Potsdam agreement.
13 mar 2023 · Whereas Stalin’s wartime remark that East Prussia was “ancient Slavic soil” had previously gone unnoticed in Kaliningrad, the Council of Ministers sought to confirm the claim by asking scholars from the Academy of Sciences to report on East Prussia’s “ancient Russian-Slavic names.”
