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Kaliningrad
[ kuh-lee-nin-grad, -grahd, kah-; Russian kuh-lyi-nyin-graht ]
noun
- a seaport in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the Bay of Danzig.
Kaliningrad
/ kəlininˈɡrat /
noun
- 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) Former name (until 1946)Königsberg
Example Sentences
Estonia and Latvia share land borders with Russia, while Lithuania is adjacent to the Russian enclave Kaliningrad, which also shares a border with Poland, and Moscow's close ally, Belarus.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said he gained an understanding of Russia’s position during a meeting last week in Kaliningrad with Alexey Likhachev, the director-general of the Russian nuclear energy agency Rosatom.
Another example is the recent allegation of Russian electronic interference in flights passing close to its exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic coast.
The draft Russian defence ministry decree suggested moving the sea borders around Russian islands in the Gulf of Finland and around the exclave of Kaliningrad.
It was not immediately clear if the draft proposed extending its borders into Finnish waters in the Baltic or Lithuanian waters near Kaliningrad.
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