Kaliningrad

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Kaliningrad

/kəˈlɪnɪŋˌɡɹæd/

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Borrowed from Russian Калинингра́д (Kaliningrád); named for Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.

proper noun

An oblast or federal subject of Russia; an exclave on the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania.
Similar: Königsberg, Królewiec
A city, the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, formerly called Königsberg. As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.

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name Kaliningrad — see also Königsberg

Español	Kaliningrado
한국어	칼리닌그라드 Kallinin'geuradeu
日本語	カリーニングラード Kariningurādo
中文	加里寧格勒 /加里宁格勒 Jiālǐnínggélè
हिन्दी	कालिनिनग्राद kālininagrād
Português	Kaliningrado
Français	Kaliningrad
Deutsch	Kaliningrad, Königsberg
Italiano	Kaliningrad
Ελληνικά	Καλίνινγκραντ Kalíningkrant
Română	Kaliningrad
Русский	Калинингра́д Kaliningrád
العربية	كَالِينِينْغْرَاد kaliningrād, كَالِينِينْغْرَاد kalininḡrād
עברית	קלינינגרד kaliningrád

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@misc{kaliningrad_2026,
  title = {Kaliningrad},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kaliningrad},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}