Kaliningrad

//kəˈlinɪnɡræd// name

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  1. 1
    An oblast or federal subject in Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania.
  2. 2
    A city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg.

    "As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated."

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królewieckönigsberg

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"Kaliningrad was once called Koenigsberg."

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád); named for Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

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