Aleksey Petrushin

A native of Kaliningrad, he studied at the Tyumen Industrial Institute and the Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics. By profession, he is the chief engineer of a telecommunications company. His interests include the history of his home region and photography. He worked in Siberia and the Far North but never lost touch with his native land. Since 2009, he has lived permanently in Kaliningrad.

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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Rybachye (Loye)

An abandoned site that was once a royal fishing village

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Zalivino (Tawe)

A fishing village that vanished at the end of the 20th century

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Prichaly (Inse)

A well-hidden gem of the Elk Valley

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Izhevskoye (Widitten)

At the fork to Svetly and Baltiysk

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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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Kolosovka (Willgaiten / Wiekau)

The heart of Königsberg's waterworks

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Lyublino (Seerappen)

A settlement on the Sambian Peninsula west of Kaliningrad

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Voroshilovo (Contienen)

Where the Kaliningrad Sea Shipping Canal begins

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Grachevka (Kraam)

In the heart of Samland

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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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Nivenskoye (Wittenberg)

On the road from Kaliningrad to Bagrationovsk

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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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