In 1785 Altenberg is classified as a village under Kulm law (Cöllmisch Dorf) with 14 households. By 1800 the number of households had fallen to 13, and Altenberg itself now appears as a royal village under Kulm law.
In the 19th century Altenberg was a village forming, from 1818, a rural community in Landkreis Königsberg / Königsberg (merged into Landkreis Samland / Samland in 1939). The village belonged to the parish of Ludwigswalde / Ludwigswalde (Lesnoye). The community also included the Altenberg garrison training ground (54°37'49'' N 20°31'22'' E). In 1871 Altenberg had 18 residential houses, in which 49 families lived. On 30.04.1874 the rural community of Altenberg was included in the newly established Amtsbezirk of Aweiden / Aweiden (Yuzhny, Kaliningrad).
The estate owner Wendhoffer / Wendhoffer of Altenberg held the post of head of the Amtsbezirk in 1900–18, and in 1918–30 the Amtsbezirk was headed by another estate owner from Altenberg, Raffel / Raffel.
On 30.09.1928 the abolished Gutsbezirk of Aweiden, consisting of the Aweiden estate (Yuzhny, Kaliningrad) and the Neuvorwerk / Neuvorwerk outlying farm (54°39'26'' N 20°30'01'' E), became part of the Altenberg community. On 14.05.1930 the rural community of Altenberg passed to the Amtsbezirk of Gollau / Gollau (Poddubnoye). A certain Bruno / Bruno from Altenberg was head of the Gollau Amtsbezirk in 1943–45. On 01.10.1933 a large part of the community within the ring road (the former Gutsbezirk of Aweiden) became part of the city of Königsberg. In 1933–37 the Königsberg – Berlin highway (Reichsautobahn) was built past Altenberg.
On 05.07.1950 Altenberg was renamed the settlement of Dorozhnoye. Initially the settlement became part of the Tsvetkovo village council. In 1955 there were five houses in the settlement, and in 1963 seven. In the early 1960s a railway branch line was built past the settlement, connecting Dzerzhinskaya-Novaya station with the Kaliningrad – Mamonovo railway. From 1965 the settlement of Dorozhnoye was subordinate to the Novomoskovsky village council. In the 2000s the part of the settlement north of the former Altenberg became part of Kaliningrad. As of 2018, besides the settlement of Dorozhnoye, plots of the Vishenka-2 gardening partnership are located on part of the former Altenberg. The Volvo technical centre is also on the territory of the former Altenberg. Since the 2010s individual housing construction in the settlement has intensified.
Sights: there was a mass grave of Soviet soldiers in Dorozhnoye (54°38'33'' N 20°30'26'' E); no later than 1963 it was moved, and the site is now a plot of the Vishenka gardening partnership.
Population: 1818 – 127, 1867 – 262, 1871 – 280, 1885 – 246, 1905 – 198, 1984 – 160, 2002 – 231, 2010 – 21, 2011 – 21 inhabitants.
Population of the Altenberg community: 1818 – 127, 1867 – 262, 1871 – 280, 1885 – 246, 1905 – 201, 1910 – 214, 1925 – 451, 1933 – 808, 1939 – 253 inhabitants.
Population of the Altenberg garrison training ground: 1905 – 3 inhabitants.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
