Zarechenskoye (Groß Sobrost)
The former Groß Sobrost estate and its hillfort, known as the “Swedish fortification”
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Kulikovo (Strobjehnen)
A village in the Zelenogradsk District. Railway station on the Zelenogradsk – Pionersky line
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Klyukvennoye (Klycken)
A settlement in Zelenogradsk Urban District, west of Grachevka
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Bolshiye Berezhki (Alt Lappienen)
One of the key points on the map of the Elk Valley
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Svobodnoye (Gross Mischen)
In the early 20th century the estate was owned by the well-known inventor Georg Knorr
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Gribki (Gross Allgawischken)
A village west of Kaukehmen (Yasnoye) that became famous thanks to a fairy tale about the local water spirit Schlompetters
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Petrovo (Zielkeim)
A settlement in the Zelenogradsk Urban District on the old road to Cranz
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Vzmorye (Gross Heydekrug)
The first large locality after Kosma on the road from Kaliningrad to Baltiysk
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Strelnya (Schultitten)
A settlement near the legendary Prussian sanctuary of Romowe
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Krasnotorovka (Heiligenkreutz)
According to legend, the first cross in Samland was erected here
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Territorial divisions and local self-government in Prussia
Old Prussian terminology needs decoding
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Neue Sorge and Herzogs-Acker
From Rossgarten to the Litauer Wall, north of King Street, home to the Kronprinz barracks and the Grolman bastion
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Sackheim
The easternmost district of the Innenstadt (inner city), where Königsberg's poor lived and multiplied
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Pribrezhnoye (Palmburg)
A settlement in the eastern part of the city on the bank of the Pregolya
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Oktyabrsky Island (Lomse)
Two in one: a special economic zone and a cultural cluster
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Yuzhny (Aweiden and Speichersdorf)
Alley of the Brave south of the bridge over the railway
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Komsomolskoye (Schönfließ)
Along a beautiful river in the southern part of the city
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Dalnoye (Seligenfeld)
On the way out of the city along Podpolkovnika Yemelyanova Street, next to Fort No. 12 Eulenburg and Fort No. 11 Dönhoff
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Dorozhnoye (Altenberg)
A settlement south of Kaliningrad that was once part of Königsberg
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Vorstadt
The Kneiphof freedom on the southern bank of the Pregel, where the saddler Kant lived, who named his fourth child Emanuel
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Dunayevka (Thierenberg)
A settlement in the most deserted part of the Sambian Peninsula
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Altstadt (1286–1944)
The oldest town on the Pregel. The heart of Königsberg, which beat for 700 years between the castle and the river
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Otradnoye (Georgenswalde)
The western part of Svetlogorsk, where the famous Königsberg sculptor Hermann Brachert lived in the 1930s. Today there is a museum here
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Primorye (Gross Kuhren)
Between Svetlogorsk and Yantarny. "Baltic Artek", the beach of Filino Bay, the Zipfelberg dune – it is all here
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Rybnoye (Loppöhnen)
Between Svetlogorsk and Pionersky. In the Soviet period the place was known locally as the Boatswains' Village
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Zaostrovye (Rantau)
A settlement separated from Cape Gvardeysky by an extensive pine grove with a modern lighthouse
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Lesnoye (Warnicken)
One of the iconic places of Sambia, which gave its name to the large forest in the north-west of the peninsula
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Löbenicht (1300–1944)
One of the three towns on the Pregel that would later merge into a single Königsberg
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Portovoye (Nasser Garten)
A low-lying district in the south-west of Kaliningrad whose old German name translates as Wet Garden
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Kant Island (Kneiphof)
A Hanseatic outpost in Königsberg. An island town on the Pregel. In the old days people used to say: in Altstadt, power; in Kneiphof, luxury
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Rizhskoye (Kalthof and Devau)
The north-eastern outskirts of Kaliningrad-Königsberg, with cemeteries, a shooting range and Europe's first civil airport
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Suvorovo (Spandienen)
The south-western outskirts of the city, known to most Kaliningraders thanks to the busy road towards the EU border
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Vozdushny (Ratshof)
A mill, a grain elevator, a carriage works, a rock club, a marina, the local mecca of coffee brewing — there is so much here!
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Nevskoye (Rothenstein)
A district north-east of the centre, between today's Nevskogo and Gagarina streets
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Nevskoye (Kummerau)
Today this is the site of the Emergency Hospital and the Catholic church of St Adalbert, behind which there was a crematorium before the Second World War
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Sevskoye (Böttchersdorf)
The first church here was built under Ulrich von Jungingen, when he was still Komtur of Balga Castle
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Mendeleyevo (Juditten)
The local church, the oldest in the city, played no small part in the district's popularity
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Osokino (Panjes)
A cosy, picturesque settlement on the way out of Yantarny towards Primorsk
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Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg)
A city that emerged at the confluence of the Instruch and Angrappa rivers
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Chernyshevskoye (Eydtkuhnen)
Eydtkuhnen is first mentioned in 1557 as the settlement of Eittkau
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Yantarny (Palmnicken)
The place became known in the 19th century, when the amber miners Stantien & Becker moved here from the Curonian Spit
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Guryevsk (Neuhausen)
The little town has had a controversial reputation since the time of the first Hohenzollerns. Especially its castle
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Wundlacken Estate
Wundlacken was founded in 1284. Until 1785 it was called Wundilauken
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Gusev (Gumbinnen)
King Frederick William I of Prussia granted Gumbinnen town status on 6 April 1721
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Slavsk (Heinrichswalde)
Capital of the polder lands of the Elchniederung, aka the Elk Valley
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Morskoye (Pillkoppen)
Founded in 1283 as Neustadt Castle. Today the cosiest settlement on the Russian half of the Curonian Spit
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Ilyichyovo (Waldwinkel)
A quiet corner of the Polessk District that became famous thanks to the Old German School Waldwinkel museum
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Zelenogradsk (Cranz)
A popular seaside resort at the base of the Curonian Spit, a.k.a. the "City of Cats", the leader in urban improvement in the Kaliningrad Region
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Sovetsk (Tilsit)
A city of regional significance where the Tylzha River flows into the Neman
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Neman (Ragnit)
Ragnit was granted town rights in 1722 by Frederick William I, who went down in history as the Soldier King
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Krasnoznamensk (Lasdehnen)
Soviet historiography regards 1734 as the official founding year of Krasnoznamensk
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Pravdinsk (Friedland)
The town is unique in that it did not grow up around a castle of the Order or of a bishop
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Nesterov (Stallupönen)
In 1818 Stallupönen became the centre of the Kreis of the same name
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Krylovo (Nordenburg)
The settlement by the ruined castle of Nordenburg received Kulm town rights on 24 July 1407
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Ozyorsk (Darkehmen)
This small town on the Angrapa once gave shelter to Swiss Protestants, who turned it into a real "gem"
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Zheleznodorozhny (Gerdauen)
The settlement by Gerdauen Castle was granted town rights on 21 September 1398
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