Hotmail
Messenger
My MSN
MSN Directory
Additional Reference Materials
ThesaurusBilingual Dictionaries
Web Centre
Facts & Figures
Other Resources
Primary ResourcesTimes Archive
Literature Guides
Foreign Language Help
Project Starters
Tea Break
Columns
Top 10 Lists
This Day in History
Multimedia
Support
Encarta ProductsEncarta Answers
Encarta Worldwide
Help
|
Picture | |
from | Encarta |  |
Kaliningrad, Russia |
||||||
 |
||||||
|
||||||
| Kaliningrad, on the Pregolya River, is an important Russian commercial centre connected to Baltiysk, an ice-free port on the Baltic Sea. Formerly known as Königsberg, the city's strategic location has been occupied by many different forces, including the Teutonic Knights, Prussians, and Soviets. Kaliningrad is now an exclave of Russia on the Baltic Sea, surrounded by Lithuania and Poland. | ||||||
|
||||||
| TASS/SOVFOTO-EASTFOTO | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
| Appears in these articles | ||||||
|
||||||
| Kaliningrad | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© 2008 Microsoft
  |