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Königsberg as Kaliningrad
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Today Kaliningrad is the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. As of the 2002 Census, its population was 430,003.
Since the end of WWII, so much has changed there - and to get some idea of what Königsberg looks like today as a modern Kaliningrad in the context of what was there before - these sets of pictures compare the same location, with roughly 65 years in between ... find many more at this incredible photo site dedicated to documenting the many changes that have occured over the years: (Russian/German site) http://www.kng750.kanet.ru/
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| Kaiser Wilhelm Platz | ||
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| Castle Pond | Castle Pond | |
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| Synagogue in 1937 | ||
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| Riverbank | ||
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