Kalingrad Hotels

Hotels in the Kalingrad often required for tourists who require short term accommodation. Some may want to stay at hotels that have a decent range of prices. Some tourists may want to see the culture, history and sports of the famous region. Some may want to stay at small hotels or large hotels. Some may want to stay at hotels that have good reputation. Some may want to stay at hotels that have good access to scenery and to culture. Some may want to stay at hotels that reflect Kalingrad culture.

Hotels in the city of Kalingrad are often needed by tourists who require short term accommodation.

Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.

Originally named Königsberg, the Prussian and German town had been founded in 1255, and was then largely destroyed during World War II. Its ruins were occupied by the Soviet Army after WW2 and it was renamed Kaliningrad. In the meantime, the name was briefly Russified as Kyonigsberg.

Kaliningrad is located at the mouth of the navigable Pregolya River, which empties into the Vistula Lagoon, an inlet of the Baltic Sea.

Sea vessels can access Gdan'sk Bay and the Baltic Sea by way of the Vistula Lagoon and the Strait of Baltiysk.

Until circa 1900 ships drawing more than 2 meters of water could not pass the bar and come into town, so that larger vessels had to anchor at Pillau (now Baltiysk), where merchandise was moved onto smaller vessels. In 1901 a ship canal between Königsberg and Pillau was completed at a cost of 13 million marks, which enabled vessels of a 6.5 meters draught to moor alongside the town. (See also Ports of the Baltic Sea.) Khrabrovo Airport is located 24 kilometers north of Kaliningrad, and has a few scheduled/charter services to several destinations throughout Europe. There is the smaller Kaliningrad Devau Airport for general aviation. Kaliningrad is also home to Kaliningrad Chkalovsk naval air base.

Main sites include or have included ;

Königsberg Cathedral
Sackheim Gate, Royal Gate and Brandenburg Gate (Königsberg)
Dom Sovyetov of Kaliningrad
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Kaliningrad)
Kaliningrad Zoo (formerly: "Königsberg Tiergarten") and former Ostmesse locality
Ploshchad Pobedy (city centre)
Immanuel Kant State University of Russia (located on the campus of the former University of Königsberg)
old fortifications
World Ocean Museum/Oceanic museum

The castle of Königsberg was built in 1255 by the Teutonic Knights as a tribute to King Ottokar II of Bohemia, who had led a campaign against pagan Sambians. The town became a member of the Hanseatic League, then in 1457 headquarters of the Teutonic Order, and seat of the secular Duchy of Prussia in 1525. Königsberg became a centre of education when the Albertina University was founded by Duke Albert of Prussia in 1544. By the act of coronation in Königsberg in 1701, Prince-elector Frederick III of Brandenburg became Frederick I, King in Prussia. After World War I, the creation of the Polish Corridor cut off East Prussia and Königsberg from the rest of mainland Weimar Germany.

At the end of World War II the city became part of the Soviet Union pending the final determination of territorial questions at the peace settlement (as part of the Russian SFSR) as agreed upon by the Allies at the Potsdam Conference:

Cities and towns in Kaliningrad Oblast ; Bagrationovsk · Baltiysk · Chernyakhovsk · Guryevsk · Gusev · Gvardeysk · Krasnoznamensk · Ladushkin · Mamonovo · Neman · Nesterov · Ozyorsk · Pionersky · Polessk · Pravdinsk · Slavsk · Sovetsk · Svetlogorsk · Svetly · Zelenogradsk