Kummerau is first mentioned in 1337. The name of the village changed from Kumrav / Cumraw (1540) to Kumerav / Kumeraw (after 1540) and Kummerau / Cummerau (1785).
In 1785 Kummerau was classified as a “royal livestock breeders' village” (Königlich Schaarwerkdorf) with ten households. By 1818 the number of households had not changed, but the village itself had acquired the status of a “royal high-rent village” (Königlich Hochzinsdorf).
In the 19th century Kummerau was a village which from 1818 formed a rural commune in the Landkreis Königsberg (merged into the Landkreis Samland in 1939). The village belonged to the Quednau parish (Kaliningrad, Severnaya Gora settlement). In 1871 Kummerau had 10 residential houses with 10 families living in them. On 30.04.1874 the rural commune of Kummerau was included in the newly established Amtsbezirk of Quednau (Kaliningrad, Severnaya Gora settlement). On 18.05.1903 the newly founded estate of Charlottenwiese (54°44'40'' N 20°34'48'' E) became part of the Kummerau commune. On 19.06.1927 the rural commune of Kummerau was abolished, and the village itself became part of Königsberg.
On 29.07.1948, by decision of the Kaliningrad City Executive Committee, Kummerau was renamed Orudiyny Gorodok, which was part of the Leningradsky District of Kaliningrad.
Kummerau on a current map of Kaliningrad.
By a new decision of 18.08.1949 Kummerau (Orudiyny Gorodok) was renamed once again, as the settlement of Aleksandro-Nevskoye in the same Leningradsky District. However, in October 1950 the settlement of Aleksandro-Nevskoye became the centre of the Kutuzovo Village Council of the Guryevsk District, i.e. it turned from an urban settlement into an ordinary one. The situation with the settlement and its status was complicated by the fact that the City Executive Committee had at the time given the name Aleksandro-Nevskoye to a somewhat larger territory than Kummerau had occupied in Königsberg; in particular, it included the area between Kummerau and Rothenstein. Therefore only part of Aleksandro-Nevskoye, east of Orudiynaya and Starosapyornaya streets, became an independent settlement. The rest became the urban settlement of Aleksandro-Nevskoye (later Nevskoye).
In 1955 vegetable-growing state farm No. 25 operated in Nevskoye. Also in the 1950s, a service railway branch was laid north of the settlement from Kutuzovo-Novoye station to Pulp and Paper Mill No. 1 (TsBK-1). No later than 1975 the settlement was renamed from Aleksandro-Nevskoye to Nevskoye. In 2011 there were 250 households in the settlement. By the end of the 2010s mass construction of blocks of flats and private houses began in the settlement, as a result of which its population grew 2.5-fold.
As of 2020, Nevskoye was part of Kaliningrad in the character of its buildings and the way of life of its inhabitants, but legally it was at that time still an independent locality with the status of a settlement. A considerable part of Nevskoye's territory is taken up by an industrial zone with enterprises, warehouses and shopping centres.
Population dynamics: 1818 – 77, 1867 – 114, 1871 – 97, 1885 – 113, 1905 – 105, 2002 – 695, 2010 – 792, 2010 – 787, 2012 – 840 inhabitants.
Composition of the population of Kummerau in 1871: all 97 Evangelical Christians, children under 10 – 19, literate – 68 (of 76 surveyed, 89%).
Composition of the population of Nevskoye settlement in 2010: Composition of the population: men – 378, women – 409, children – 144 (incl. 86 schoolchildren), pensioners – 159, disabled – 42.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
