【4K】Walking in Kaliningrad (Königsberg), Russia

Kaliningrad, formerly German (1255-1946) Königsberg, Polish Królewiec, city, seaport, and administrative centre of Kaliningrad oblast (region), Russia. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. Kaliningrad lies on the Pregolya River just upstream from Frisches Lagoon. Formerly the capital of the dukes of Prussia and later the capital of East Prussia, the city was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Potsdam agreement.
The old town of Königsberg (“King’s Mountain”) grew up around the fortress built in 1255 by the Teutonic Knights on the advice of Přemysl Otakar II, king of Bohemia, after whom the place was named. Its first site was near the fishing town of Steindamm, but, after its destruction by the Prussians in 1263, it was rebuilt near where the city now stands. Königsberg received civic privileges in 1286 and entered the Hanseatic League in 1340. From 1457 it was the residence of the grand master of the Teutonic Knights, and from 1525 until 1618 the residence of the dukes of Prussia. The trade of Königsberg was much hindered by the constant shifting and silting up of the channels leading to its harbour, and the First Northern War (1655-60) did the city immense damage, but before the end of the 17th century it had almost recovered. In 1701, in the chapel of the castle, Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg crowned himself the first king of Prussia-as Frederick I. In 1724 Frederick William I of Prussia united nearby Löbenicht and Kneiphof with Königsberg to form a single city.
Königsberg suffered severely during the Napoleonic Wars and was the scene of the deliberations that led to the successful uprising of Prussia against Napoleon. During the 19th century the opening of a railway system in East Prussia and Russia gave a new impetus to the city’s commerce, making it the principal outlet for such Russian staples as grain, seeds, flax, and hemp. Under Prussia and then Germany the town was, after Kiel, the main naval base on the Baltic Sea and a key to the defense of the eastern frontier. Its modern fortifications were begun in 1843 and completed in 1905.
The city was besieged by the Russians unsuccessfully during World War I. In World War II, however, it was virtually destroyed by the Red Army after a two-month siege ending in April 1945. Left in ruins were the 14th-century cathedral, the grand castle begun by the Teutonic Knights, and the old university. Along with the extreme northern sector of East Prussia, Königsberg then passed to the sovereignty of the U.S.S.R. The new city-renamed Kaliningrad in 1946-was rebuilt and centred in what had been Königsberg’s northwestern suburbs and became a major industrial and commercial centre, connected by a 20-mile (32-kilometre) dredged channel to an outport and naval base along the Baltic called Baltiysk. The entire German population was evicted in 1947 and settled in West and East Germany. Hundreds of thousands of new settlers, primarily from Russia and Belarus, were recruited to live in the city, helping transform the urban landscape into a mosaic of old German buildings and landmarks-including the grave site of philosopher Immanuel Kant, a monument to dramatist and poet Friedrich Schiller, and several Gothic cathedrals-and Soviet developments, such as multistory apartment buildings constructed in the decades after World War II. The city was closed to foreigners until 1991.
A significant share of the local population is involved in shuttle trade of clothing and footwear purchased in Poland. The city has fishing, engineering, lumber, machinery, and papermaking industries. To stimulate investment in Kaliningrad, a special economic zone that exempts from customs duties most imported and exported goods was established there. Transit traffic between the Kaliningrad exclave and the rest of Russia is conducted via Lithuania and Belarus.
Navigation:
0:00 Königsberg Cathedral
3:31 Fishing Village
5:25 Cat street
15:35 Walk the street
25:06 Walk the park
29:11 Fishing Village (back)
35:00 Königsberg Cathedral (back)
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26 Thursday, August, Air temperature +17
#Калининград #Russia #Walk

[@modexpres]

Beutifull old city and v.nice city walk! You capture the vibe of the city...i hope and wish one day to be aible to travel there.greetings from Romania

[@surrendramonkeyshines5634]

'Cat street' is actually located not in Kaliningrad but in Zelenogradsk, a different town to the north-east of Kaliningrad

[@zeroone_01]

Wow! You made everything in the video so cool and beautiful. 👍🇰🇷🇨🇦

[@IranTourism_official]

I want to explore Russia country. Amazing Tour !!

[@timesparesnothing9463]

This is not russian country.

[@IranTourism_official]

@@timesparesnothing9463 It is written in the title of the word Russia

[@michelalatristarivera5661]

RUSIA TIENE MUY BELLA LA CIUDAD DE KALININGRADO. HERMOSISIMA. VIVA RUSIA

[@Mfuao]

ciudad hecha por alemanes, solo tomada por rusos después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

[@user-of4wb9sl6b]

Калининград Россия!👍☺☕🇷🇺

[@virtualtrip4K]

great walk🤤🤤

[@nomadicrelaxing1635]

Do you hold your camera or your hand or mounted on your chest? Which equipment you use? Great content and great chanel

[@3adolapets550]

Beautiful videos. Please tell me name this camera footage?

[@dreamofthesirens]

Люди как живые 😄

[@michalstudinski3235]

Cat street это совсем в другом городе.

[@user-ef5bl8ss3o]

Похорошел Калининград при России, как-то позеленее стал.

[@user-vm3tg4gu9d]

Экология превыше всего! Если кто к нам с мечом придет, - принудим к миру и засадим деревьями!

[@surrendramonkeyshines5634]

если бы он Германии принадлежал то там в сотни раз все круче и зеленее было бы

[@user-vm3tg4gu9d]

@@surrendramonkeyshines5634 если бы у бабушки был мопед)) Запомни: "если бы" - это все, что есть у хронических лузеров и эпичных неудачников!

[@surrendramonkeyshines5634]

@@user-vm3tg4gu9d у лузеров и неудачников только одни оскорбления и переходы на личности а по факту - 0

[@user-vm3tg4gu9d]

@@surrendramonkeyshines5634 по факту: у меня динамично развивающийся Калининград и цветущий Крым! А неудачники в интернетах ноют о том, что их не пленили немцы и не сделали из них компост для выращивания качественных немецких овощей)))

[@erdemtabdanov6399]

Very bourgeois. In a good sense.

[@okaybangchannel]

Wow, cool...but, you dont loss look chanel okay bang 😅🤣😂

[@gonzaloquirozdelvalle675]

Interesante y agradable vídeo de Kaliningrado (Königsberg). Esta ciudad de profundas raíces germánicas se encuentra hoy administrada por un país que no es su patria, se le cambio de nombre y sus habitantes originales fueron expulsados.

[@hottabich8851]

Sí, pero ¿quién tiene la culpa?

[@gonzaloquirozdelvalle675]

La U.R.S.S.!?!

[@hottabich8851]

@@gonzaloquirozdelvalle675 ¿Alemania nazi?

[@aleksejkolomenskih]

Most of Köningsberg's population wether fled during WWII to Germany or got killed by British Royal Air forces's shelling. So the Soviets didn't actually get to expel many people.

[@aleksejkolomenskih]

Also Germans are not the original inhabitants of these lands, Russians here are as legit as Germans if not more.

[@peraltaisrael2598]

German territory. Perhaps Germany should put together a “special military operation” to get it back.

[@VbSuro]

you stupid man

[@devindabuddhi7037]

ha ha get back dead nazis in the soil

[@Yusheesan]

Nope. Russian territory. The USSR offered Germany to take it back and Germany refused.

[@user-nw6tu7sm2o]

Германия нормально воевать не может. . .в первую мировую просрала. . .в Великую Отечественную тоже просрала!!!!! Может быть не стоит. . .!?!?

[@kallesyld6737]

Kaliningrad is an old Prussian (German) town, destroyed and occupied by Russian Empire.

[@extraditori6604]

Doesn't look like destroyed. Also it was given to Russia by the results of WW2.

[@vmysql]

Wow !!! 3 mistakes in 1 sentence. First : Old Prussians are not germans but balto-slavic tribes with balto-slavic language. Their ethnicity was closer to actual Lithuanians. They were almost exterminated by Germans. 2 : The town was not destroyed by Soviet (Russian) army but by the RAF (British Royal Air Force). A large majority of people who lived there fled to mainland Germany before the bombings and the occupation by the Soviet Union. 3. It was given to the USSR after WW2.

[@Yusheesan]

Kalinigrad was not destroyed by the Russian Empire. Kaliningrad was bombed by England during WW2 and then went to the USSR because Germany lost.

[@Mfuao]

"russia" kalinigrad is from prussia n needs to be returned to the germans

[@extraditori6604]

half of poland is prussia too

[@Mfuao]

@@extraditori6604 but Poles are of Germanic origin so it's their right

[@dowmont6209]

@@Mfuao they are slavs dode.

[@aleksejkolomenskih]

@@Mfuao 🤯 Are you serious? You think Poland is of Germanic origin? Well, you're a nut.

[@extraditori6604]

@@Mfuao lol poles are slavic

[@aidasbalc9456]

KALININGRAD --- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania_Minor