Kaliningrad Oblast

Not to be confused with Kaluga Oblast.
For the city and administrative center located in the oblast, see Kaliningrad.

Kaliningrad Oblast
Oblast
Калининградская область
Flag of Kaliningrad Oblast
Flag
Coat of arms of Kaliningrad Oblast
Coat of arms
Anthem: Anthem of Kaliningrad Oblast[3]
Location in Russia (red)
Location in Russia (red)
Location in Europe (dark green)
Location in Europe (dark green)
Coordinates: 54°48′N 21°25′E / 54.800°N 21.417°E / 54.800; 21.417
CountryRussia
Federal districtNorthwestern[1]
Economic regionKaliningrad[2]
Administrative centerKaliningrad
Government
 • BodyLegislative Assembly[4]
 • Governor[5]Alexey Besprozvannykh
Area
[6]
 • Total
15,125 km2 (5,840 sq mi)
 • Rank76th
Population
 (2021 census)[7]
 • Total
1,029,966
 • Estimate 
(January 2020)[8]
1,012,253
 • Rank56th
 • Density68/km2 (180/sq mi)
 • Urban
76.8%
 • Rural
23.2%
Time zoneUTC+2 (MSK–1 Edit this on Wikidata[9])
ISO 3166 codeRU-KGD
License plates39, 91
OKTMO ID27000000
Official languagesRussian[10]
Websitehttp://www.gov39.ru

Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian: Калининградская область, romanized: Kaliningradskaya oblastʹ) is the westernmost federal subject of the Russian Federation, in Central and Eastern Europe.[12] It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The oblast is surrounded by two European Union and NATO members: Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east. The largest city and administrative centre of the province (oblast) is the city of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Königsberg. Half of the population of the oblast lives in Kaliningrad City proper. The port city of Baltiysk is Russia's only port on the Baltic Sea that remains ice-free in winter. Kaliningrad Oblast had a population of roughly 1 million in the Russian Census of 2021.[13] The area of Kaliningrad oblast is 15,125 square kilometers (5,840 square miles).

The territory was formerly the northern part of the Prussian province of East Prussia; the remaining southern part of the province is today part of the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship in Poland. With the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the territory was annexed to the Russian SFSR by the Soviet Union. Following the post-war migration and flight and expulsion of Germans, the territory was populated with Soviet citizens, mostly Russians.

  1. ^ Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
  2. ^ Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
  3. ^ Law #90
  4. ^ Charter of Kaliningrad Oblast, Article 17
  5. ^ Charter of Kaliningrad Oblast, Article 28
  6. ^ "Сведения о наличии и распределении земель в Российской Федерации на 01.01.2019 (в разрезе субъектов Российской Федерации)". Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography. Archived from the original on 9 February 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  7. ^ "2020 Census data". Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  10. ^ Official throughout the Russian Federation according to Article 68.1 of the Constitution of Russia.
  11. ^ Charter of Kaliningrad Oblast, Article 3
  12. ^ Żegota, Krzysztof (2017). "The Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation as a Geopolitical Wedge of Russia in Central and Eastern Europe: Regional, State and International Context" (PDF). University of Warmia and Mazury. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  13. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Всероссийская перепись населения 2020 года. Том 1 [2020 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1] (XLS) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.