Vacation Trip 2006 June/July 2006 Photos in and Around Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia Photos in Album: 163

These are photos I took around the city of Калининград (Kaliningrad) in Калининград Област, Россия (Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)
The city has only been known by the current name since WW II. It is named after one of the presidents of the USSR, President Kalinin. Prior to WW II it was known as Konigsberg (Kenigsberg). It was part of Prussia, which officially ceased to exist after 1945.

This is a brewery in the city called Reduit



This sign says "Reduit - our beer"



This church in the city has the museum to Emmanuel Kant inside. It is currently undergoing a lot of internal repairs, and should be quite beautiful when it is all done. The church has an impressive organ, which was being played the day I visited the church. There was a concert that evening, but I got sidetracked by dinner with my guide which included copious amounts of good vodka :-)



This is a statue of Herzog Albrecht, founder of Konigsberg University



This is to mark where Kant was buried. It was his being buried here that convinced the Soviet government not to destroy the church






Here you can see some of the restoration work being done



Now we are inside the museum portion of the church



This is a sign for a "Good Music" concert of I. S. Bach's "Mass in C Minor" with the "Kredo" Choir



This portion of the wall is exposed so you can see the underlying foundation wall



This painting shows what the city looked like before The Great Patriotic War (WW II)






A painting of Kant






This is a painting of one of the many dinners Kant would hold at his home. He was very strict about the number of guests, though, in order to best facilitate good conversation and philosophical debate






This is Kant's Death Mask






These are pieces of the old portions of the church which were destroyed during the war






This is a monument to Julius Rupp, who was the Konigsberg representative to the Gustavus Adolphus Union, and one of the founders of the "Free Congregations"






Information on the City Gates






This is the "Jubilee" bridge - it was built by Kaliningrad to commemorate 750 years of Konigsberg - Kaliningrad in July 2005






This is a newly built orthodox church






This monument is dedicated to the Great Patriotic War and Sixty Years of Dedication by Калининград Оьласть, Россиа (Kaliningrad Oblast)






A typical statue of Пётру 1 (Peter the 1st)





A nice tourist map in Russian and English






A very popular night club is in this part of the fortifications






This is my city guide - she usually smiled more than in this photo :-)






This is a typical tractor that comes from Belarus



This is a monument to the Great Patriotic War (WW II)



I'm not exactly sure what this array of antennas does...



This is the sign saying we are entering the town of Sovietsk



Here we are waiting in line to cross the border back into Lithuania



These kids kept waving at us from the bus, so I snapped their photo



Here are a couple of photos from the market in Kaliningrad. It is typical for these markets to have the meat, fish, etc hanging like this or on the counter. (Not quite what we are used to in the west.)

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