Moscow Raion (Kaliningrad)
Municipality of Kaliningrad
Moscow Raion
Московский район
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The Moscow Rajon ( Russian Московский район , Moskowski rajon ) is one of three administrative districts of the city of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg (Prussia)) , the capital of the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Koenigsberg Region ).
Geographical location
The Moscow Rajon is located in the south of the city of Kaliningrad and covers an area of 76 km² south of the Pregel (Russian: Pregolja) with 152,165 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). In the north it borders on the other two urban districts, Zentralrajon and the Leningrad Rajon , in the west on the Fresh Lagoon and in the south on the Gurjewsk Rajon with the rural communities Novomoskowskoje and Lugowoje (Gutenfeld) .
history
On July 25, 1947, four districts were established in the city of Kaliningrad, in addition to the Moscow Rajon there were the Baltic , Leningrad and Stalingrad Rajons. The Zentralrajon was detached from the Stalingrad Rajon in 1952. In 1961, the rest of Stalingrad Rajon was in Oktoberrajon renamed. On June 29th, 2009 the Oktoberrajon was incorporated into the Central Rajon and the Baltic Rajon into the Moscow Rajon, so that its area now extends from the Fresh Lagoon to the southeastern tip of Kaliningrad.
Integrated districts of Königsberg
In today's area of the Moscow Rajons, 20 districts of the former city of Königsberg (Prussia) as well as places of the former district of Samland are incorporated:
German name | Russian name | German name | Russian name | |
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Aweiden | Yuzhny | Wet garden | Portowoje | |
Haberberg | Noble Neuendorf | Rzhevskoye | ||
Heyde-Waldburg 1938–46: Heidewaldburg |
Pribreschny | Ponarth | Dimitrowo | |
Jerusalem | Moskovskoye | Prappeln | Chapayevo | |
Kalgen [settlement] | Tchaikovskoye | Rosenau | ||
Kneiphof | Schönbusch | Dimitrowo | ||
Accounts | Voroshilovo | Schönfließ | Komsomolskoye | |
Kraussen | Borissovo | Blessed field | Dalneje | |
Lomse | Chip service | Suvorovo | ||
Mühlenhof | Speicherersdorf | Yuzhny |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Kaliningradskaya oblastʹ. (Results of the 2010 all-Russian census. Kaliningrad Oblast.) Volume 1 , Table 4 (Download from the website of the Kaliningrad Oblast Territorial Organ of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)