Kaliningrad

[kuh-lee-nin-grad, -grahd, kah-, kuh-lyi-nyin-graht]

noun

1. a seaport in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the Bay of Danzig.

Kaliningrad

/ kəlininˈɡrat /

noun

1. Former name (until 1946): Königsberg. a port in W Russia, on the Pregolya River: severely damaged in World War II as the chief German naval base on the Baltic; ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 and is now Russia's chief Baltic naval base. Pop: 436 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Passenger trains running between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad through Lithuania will not be affected by the decision, the government said.

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"It's for my mum, she lives in Kaliningrad," he told AFP.

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From the Russian perspective, Kaliningrad, home to around one million people, has become something of a front line in its standoff with the West.

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Lithuania earlier this month issued a diplomatic protest at Moscow over an alleged brief incursion into its airspace by two military planes stationed in Kaliningrad.

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As the Yantar pulled into its final stop in Kaliningrad, and the doors unsealed for the final time, he puffed up: "We fear nothing. We are brave."

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