Aleksandr Kazyonnov

Local historian

Born in 1983 in the town of Gusev. A lawyer by training, he has been interested in the history of his native region since his school days. His main fields of interest in local history are “burials and memorials of the First World War”, “the history of the Rominten Heath”, “the architecture and monuments of East Prussia” and “fortifications and defensive lines of East Prussia”. Since 2013 he has been a leading specialist at the Center for Military Memorial Research of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. He is the author of a series of articles on the history of the Rominten Heath and the First World War, as well as on a number of other topics, on the website “Postcard from East Prussia” (eastprussia.ru).