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VisitPrussia.com

Editorial team

The project is for everyone who takes part in the present, is interested in the past and cares about the future of the Kaliningrad Region and its neighbouring regions. Our mission is to decode and decipher Prussia for everyone interested in the region.

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 a…

Aleksandr Sologubov

Philosopher and researcher of borderland cultures

Born in the town of Gusev in the Kaliningrad Region, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Kaliningrad State University (KSU) and completed postgraduate studies in logic there. He holds a Candidate of Sciences degree in Philosophy. His research interests include borderland…

Aleksandr Khramchikhin

Military and political analyst

Born in 1967. Graduated from the Faculty of Physics at Moscow State University. Author of the books "Russians at War" and "Has the Dragon Awoken?" Deputy Director of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis.

Aleksandr Shamshiev

Political commentator and international affairs journalist

Born in Sverdlovsk, he spent his early childhood in Svetlogorsk and has lived in Kaliningrad since his school years. He graduated from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. He is a correspondent and political commentator for RuBaltic.Ru. He has written for Komsomolskaya P…

Aleksey Petrushin

Amateur historian, local history researcher

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.…

Aleksey Salikov

Philosopher, political scientist

Graduated in 2001 from Kaliningrad State University (now the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of History. In 2008 he defended his PhD thesis in philosophy on "The Reception of Kant's Ideas in Hannah Arendt's Theory of the Faculty of Jud…

Aleksey Sokolov

Director of the Vištytis Ecological and Historical Museum

Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD equivalent), Associate Professor. He graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Kaliningrad State University in 1994. Since 2001 he has headed the Kaliningrad regional public institution "Vištytis Ecological and Historical Museum" and is an ex…

Aleksey Shchegolev

Journalist, editor of the Afisha RUGRAD.EU portal

Anatoly Bakhtin

Local history researcher, medieval historian

(1949 – 2023) Anatoly Pavlovich Bakhtin, who served as chief archivist of the State Archive of the Kaliningrad Region (http://www.gako.name/), considered the Teutonic Order and everything connected with it, including the Order's castles, churches and towns, to be his main passi…

Andrey Bolotov

Russian scholar and memoirist

1738 (Dvoryaninovo, Tula Governorate) – 1833 (ibid.) Russian memoirist, moral philosopher, scholar, agronomist, botanist and forester. He lived in Königsberg during the Seven Years' War, from April 1758 to March 1762.

Anton Kovalsky

RE:aktivist

Editor-in-chief of RE:aktivist (http://reaktivist.ru/), a website about life, music, film and travel; art director of the international project "The Faroe Islands Are Closer Than You Think"; music critic and promoter; member of the Union of Journalists of Russia. He graduated fr…

Artyom Ryzhkov

Art director of the ZARYA cinema, founder of the Kvartira art space

My name is Artyom Ryzhkov. I live in Kaliningrad, but it's on the Curonian Spit that I breathe. I write books, run the Kvartira art project, programme the ZARYA cinema, host "Life on the Moon" on Radio Maximum, and put together the programmes of the EU Film Festival and the Koro…

Arthur Sarnitz

Architect, Managing Director of Fort Dönhoff LLC

A native Kaliningrader — and even a Königsberger. (His paternal grandmother was born on the Pregel and lived there until she married.) He spent his childhood in Cuba, where his father worked, and returned to Kaliningrad with his parents in 1976. He did his military service in St…

Barbara Tuchman

American writer and historian

(1912–1989) Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, one of them for "The Guns of August" (1963; a bestseller about the origins and first month of the First World War).

Vadim Chaly

Philosopher, surfer

Born in Kaliningrad, he went to kindergarten on Komsomolskaya Street and to school on Pionerskaya Street. He has worked as a car washer, translator, petrol station attendant, musician, loader, airline ticket agent and postman, and has been a student at the Faculty of Economics a…

Valery Smirnov

Journalist, historian, film critic

In 1974 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) University. He completed his student internship in Kaliningrad. He worked for newspapers and television companies in Dushanbe and Tver as a correspondent, deputy editor and editor-in-chief. F…

Viktor Suvorov

Archaeologist, local historian, PhD in History

(1947–2008) A graduate of the A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University. Associate professor, founder and head of the Department of the History of the Baltic Region at Kaliningrad State University in 1992–2003, and professor at the Department of Auxiliary Historical Disciplines …

Vladas Povilaitis

Historian of Russian philosophy

Born and raised in Kaliningrad, he graduated from the Faculty of History at Kaliningrad State University (1995) and then, to his own surprise and everyone else's, enrolled in a postgraduate programme in philosophy, which finally put paid to all his hopes of a long, prosperous an…

Vladimir Bespalov

Historian

Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD) and local historian. He has more than 40 publications on the history and current issues of international relations in the second half of the 20th century and on the history of the Second World War. Author of the book "West Berlin Transit (1…

Vladimir Kuzin

Lecturer at Kaliningrad State Technical University

He headed the Economic Development Committee of the Administration of the Kaliningrad City District and the Department of Strategic Planning for Socio-Economic Development in the Government of the Kaliningrad Region. He is currently director of an analytical centre and an associ…