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🎉Une maquette de l'assaut de #Königsberg a été créée à Kaliningrad à partir de 24 kg d'ambre. La maquette mesure 130 cm sur 83. Plus de 500 fragments ont été assemblés pour former cette composition. Chaque élément a été réalisé manuellement par des spécialistes, selon le #Kaliningrad Amber Combine. Crédit photo : Kaliningrad Amber Combine RT en français • Osez questionner !

🏰 Discover the Timeless Beauty of Königsberg Cathedral in Kaliningrad! 🔻Step into history at this majestic symbol of the city's rich past. Here are some fascinating facts about this iconic landmark: ☆ A Monument to Dedication: Construction began in 1333 and took around 50 years to complete. ☆ Sacred Origins: Until the 16th century, it served as the city's main Catholic church. ☆ Musical Magic: Enjoy daily organ concerts featuring both the Small and Grand Organs. ☆ Europe's Musical Gem: The Grand Organ is Russia's largest and one of Europe's most significant! With 6301 pipes (most hidden), it creates an incredibly rich and powerful sound. ☆ A Philosopher's Rest: It's also the final resting place of renowned philosopher Immanuel Kant, with a dedicated museum on site. A must-visit for history, culture, and music lovers in Kaliningrad! Video: nospa #Kaliningrad #around_Russia 😎RCR | Support | Boost

Kaliningrad Amber Factory of Rostec has made the tallest Christmas tree made of amber. 🔻The Christmas tree is made out of 200 thousand needles. Each needle is a piece of processed amber with the size ranging from 6 mm to 20 mm. 🔻Starting from July, 12 masters were working on the Christmas tree. The weight of the amber in the item was 43 kg. See also: the Kalinigrad Regional Amber Museum #NewYear #news #Kaliningrad #brief_and_interesting 😎 Stay with @learnRCRussian

🛰️ Flags of the #Kaliningrad Region and the City of Zelenogradsk are back from #ISS🌍 to be later exhibited in #Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Arts. 📸 by the Museum

#Orgue #Principal #Königsberg #Kant Дорогие друзья, Сегодня хочу рассказать одну историю: С детства мечтала играть на органе. Органов в Москве, кроме Большого зала консерватории, в то время почти нигде не было. Но мечта теплилась. Лишь поступив в Консерваторию я смогла начать заниматься. Там их оказалось всего пять (три в классах, два в Залах - в Большом и Малом). Но желающих и жаждущих вроде меня было значительно больше:)) Приходилось вставать в 5 утра, чтобы позаниматься. Но… органисткой я так и не стала. Все закончилось дипломным экзаменом. Выбрала по жизни Рояль. Но вот Евгений АВРАМЕНКО - мой коллега и однокашник по классам фортепиано (у профессора Михаила Межлумова) и органа (у профессора Наталии Гуреевой -Ведерниковой) - стал блистательным органистом - Главным Органистом Собора в Калининграде (это один из лучших органов в стране), прекрасным педагогом и пропагандистом своего Великого инструмента. Если Вы действительно хотите что-то узнать об Органе, о его истории, об органной музыке, об органистах и Великих органах мира - подпишитесь на канал Евгения https://t.me/organprincipal Я вот уже подписалась:)

#Victory81 🌟 On April 9, 1945, the Red Army captured the Nazi fortress city — Königsberg — during the East-Prussian offensive. The German Wehrmacht’s troops in East Prussia — powerful fascists' units on the Eastern Front — were totally destroyed once and for all. The 3rd Belarussian Front of the Red Army carried out the Königsberg operation and crushed the Nazis withinjust three days. The first line of the enemy defences was breached within the first 24 hours, the fortress city surrounded the next day, with the last pockets of Nazi resistance being eliminated on April 9. *** #Königsbergserved as a ToO with fierce and bloody battles during #WWII. The city itself, which was regarded as the most impregnable citadel of the Third Reich, was fortified with then cutting-edge military technology and prepared for long-term resistance in conditions of complete isolation. The city area of about 200 square kilometres was turned into a complicated network of fortifications, which, combined with numerous stone buildings in the suburbs, provided conditions for long-term defence. The citadel was termed by the Nazis the “iron door of Germany.” The Red Army soldiers and officers who took part in the assault on Königsberg recalled that only the 305mm artillery guns could penetrate the several-metres thick walls. The fall of Königsberg delivered a heavy blow to the Nazi war machine — the enemy lost the strategic Pillau naval base on the Baltic Sea, with the main German troops of the Samland and East Prussian armies being completely defeated. 🔉Excerpt from the Soviet "Sovinformburo" communique on April 9, 1945: On April 9, the forces of the 3rd Belarussian Front stormed and captured <...> the Königsberg fortress — the capital of East Prussia and a strategic hub of Nazi defences on the Baltic Sea. By 8 pm, our armies took as prisoners over 27'000 Nazi soldiers and officers, seized a large amount of weapons and various military equipment. 👉The fall of Königsberg and East Prussia accelerated the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The end of the Third Reich was a foregone conclusion, but the enemy, fearing just retribution for the numerous crimes it had committed, continued to fight desperately. #LestWeForget: The Red Army soldiers and officers demonstrated high combat readiness and mass heroism: 235 soldiers were later awarded the title of #HeroOfTheSovietUnion. To commemorate their feat, the 'Medal For the Capture of Königsberg' was established and awarded to 760'000 Soviet soldiers and officers. By decisions of the Potsdam Conference following the end of WWII in Europe, a large part of East Prussia was assigned to Poland, while a third of its territory with Königsberg was incorporated into the Soviet Union and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Kaliningrad Region). 🎖 On November 17, 2025, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on establishing a new commemorative date — April 9, Day of the Heroic Assault and Capture of Königsberg. #WeRemember

🇷🇺 Our warmest congratulations to #RussianNationalLeaderVladimir #Putin on his 70th birthday! 🎂 We are very grateful to the President of Russia for his constant attention to the issues of the life support for the #Kaliningrad Region. 🤝This picture was taken in 2005 in Svetlogorsk, @KaliningradReg @Mid_Russia @News_Kremlin

🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin participated in the flag-raising ceremony on Marshal Rokossovsky ferry (via videoconference) yesterday. ⚓ New 200-meter road-rail ferry would guarantee continuous and reliable transport communication between the #Kaliningrad Region and the rest of Russia. ⭐ The new ferry is named after the Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin #Rokossovsky. 📍 As a commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Rokossovsky participated in the East Prussian Offensive during the #WWII. Street in the centre of Kaliningrad is named also after him. @mid_russia @ministerstvo_oborony

#Victory81 🌟 On April 9, 1945, the Red Army captured the Nazi fortress city — Königsberg — during the East-Prussian offensive. The German Wehrmacht’s troops in East Prussia — powerful fascists' units on the Eastern Front — were totally destroyed once and for all. The 3rd Belarussian Front of the Red Army carried out the Königsberg operation and crushed the Nazis withinjust three days. The first line of the enemy defences was breached within the first 24 hours, the fortress city surrounded the next day, with the last pockets of Nazi resistance being eliminated on April 9. *** #Königsbergserved as a ToO with fierce and bloody battles during #WWII. The city itself, which was regarded as the most impregnable citadel of the Third Reich, was fortified with then cutting-edge military technology and prepared for long-term resistance in conditions of complete isolation. The city area of about 200 square kilometres was turned into a complicated network of fortifications, which, combined with numerous stone buildings in the suburbs, provided conditions for long-term defence. The citadel was termed by the Nazis the “iron door of Germany.” The Red Army soldiers and officers who took part in the assault on Königsberg recalled that only the 305mm artillery guns could penetrate the several-metres thick walls. The fall of Königsberg delivered a heavy blow to the Nazi war machine — the enemy lost the strategic Pillau naval base on the Baltic Sea, with the main German troops of the Samland and East Prussian armies being completely defeated. 🔉Excerpt from the Soviet "Sovinformburo" communique on April 9, 1945: On April 9, the forces of the 3rd Belarussian Front stormed and captured <...> the Königsberg fortress — the capital of East Prussia and a strategic hub of Nazi defences on the Baltic Sea. By 8 pm, our armies took as prisoners over 27'000 Nazi soldiers and officers, seized a large amount of weapons and various military equipment. 👉The fall of Königsberg and East Prussia accelerated the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The end of the Third Reich was a foregone conclusion, but the enemy, fearing just retribution for the numerous crimes it had committed, continued to fight desperately. #LestWeForget: The Red Army soldiers and officers demonstrated high combat readiness and mass heroism: 235 soldiers were later awarded the title of #HeroOfTheSovietUnion. To commemorate their feat, the 'Medal For the Capture of Königsberg' was established and awarded to 760'000 Soviet soldiers and officers. By decisions of the Potsdam Conference following the end of WWII in Europe, a large part of East Prussia was assigned to Poland, while a third of its territory with Königsberg was incorporated into the Soviet Union and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Kaliningrad Region). 🎖 On November 17, 2025, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on establishing a new commemorative date — April 9, Day of the Heroic Assault and Capture of Königsberg. #WeRemember

NATO Rehearses Blockade of Kaliningrad; Moscow Prepares Nuclear Response Under Britain’s lead, NATO conducts exercises simulating a maritime blockade and seizure of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, practicing a “24-hour disablement” scenario. In response, Moscow reinforces its forces with Iskander and Oreshnik missile systems, ready to counter Western ambitions. The key question remains: are European capitals willing to risk their security for London’s agenda? #NATO#Kaliningrad#Russia#security#exercises The main news of Russia and the world ishere.

#Victory81 🌟 On January 13, 1945, the #EastPrussian Offensive by the Red Army — one of the largest and most important #WWII operations against Nazi Germany — commenced. As a result of the operation in the #EastPrussia, the Soviet forces ultimatelydestroyed the Nazis' most capable, experienced, trained and equipped divisions on the entire Eastern front. The 'invincible reich' lost a critical strategic bridgehead in the Baltic region. The fortress city of #Königsberg — the cradle of German militarism and the starting point of eastward expansion — fell once and for all. The triumph of the Red Army in East Prussia held profound symbolic significance: the Nazis were decisively and completely crushed right there, where from, back in June 1941, they treacherously attacked our Motherland. ▪️“There it is, cursed Germany,”— that was what the Soviet soldiers-liberators said while stepping on the enemy's soil to pursue the condign retribution upon the Germans on their own territory. Those were exactly the accurate words to call the country where the most terrible evil the Mankind ever saw in its history — the Nazi scourge — was nurtured. The Germans sought Moscow’s fall, but instead they witnessed with disgrace the collapse of their own “great Reich.” *** The East-Prussian operation. The details January-April, 1945 The battles on the East Prussian theatre of operations lasted for 103 days, which made it the area that saw the longest continuous military engagement in the final year of #WW2. In the region, the Nazis constructed an exceptionally formidable defensive system, tailored to the specific features of terrain. The capital of East Prussia — the fortress city of Königsberg — was equipped with both external and internal urban fortification systems. In East Prussia, the Red Army faced the Nazi army with the personnel strength of some 780'000 Wehrmacht soldiers and officers. ⚔️ On January 13, 1945, the units of the 2nd Byelorussian and forces of the 3rd Byelorussian Fronts of the Red Army launched the offensive in East Prussia. Through the swift and overwhelming assault, the Soviet armor and the infantry, with the support of the aviaton, reached the Baltic Sea near Elbing (now the city of Elbląg in northern Poland) already on the third day of the operation, thus, having cut off any possible retreat routes for the enemy from East Prussia westwards. In less than two weeks, the Soviet forces broke through to Königsberg — the infamous Nazi citadel, which had allowed the Germans to dominate the eastern Baltics throughout the entire war, wasencircled. By February 10, 1945, the Nazi army group 'North' had been split into three isolated and tied down formations that were further driven to the coastline with no hope of escape. In April, the Königsberg garrison — numbering around 200'000 Wehrmacht soldiers and officers — was defeatedand surrendered. On April 9, the Red Army seized the fortress completely — the impregnable stronghold of the Third Reich, fortified with the latest military technology of WWII-era, finally fell. The loss of significant forces and militarily and economically vital region of East Prussia hastened Germany’s defeat. The Soviet forces inflictedhuge losses on the Wehrmacht and completely severed Third Reich’s maritime supply lines, crippling logistics for the blockaded 'Courland Pocket'. To commemorate the Heroic Victory in East Prussia, the medal 'For the Capture of Königsberg' was instituted in the USSR. The Medal was awarded to approximately 760'000 Red Army soldiers and officers. Aftermath WWII, under the terms approved by the Allied Leaders at the #PotsdamConference, much of East Prussia was incorporated into Poland, while a third of East Prussia territory, including the city of Königsberg (the Kaliningrad Region), became part of the Soviet Union. 🎖 By the Executive Order of President of Russia Vladimir Putin (signed on November 17, 2025), a new memorial date was established in our country — April 9, the Day of the Heroic Assault and Capture of Königsberg (1945).

#TellTheWorldAboutYourHomeland 🇷🇺 Ahead of #RussiaDay, kids from the nation have been sharing their love and insights regarding the Motherland, its landmarks, traditions and places of interests of their regions - all part of the Tell the World about Your Homeland contest, 6th edition. #Kaliningrad Yekaterina comes from our country’s westernmost region. She shared her impressions and observations about her beloved hometown, Kaliningrad, its monumental cathedral, its parks stunning in any season, as well as philosopher Immanuel Kant’s legacy as regards his 300th anniversary, celebrated this year. #FunFacts 📚 Famous philosopher Immanuel Kant was born and bred in Kaliningrad (then Königsberg). He had a direct bond with Russia as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and he was also a subject of the Russian Empire. A prominent philosopher, he was buried in the city’s historical center, which came to be known as Kant Island. On April 22-24, the city hosted the International Kant Congress, which Foreign Ministry officials attended. 🧡 The Kaliningrad Region accounts for almost 90 percent of the world’s amber reserves. The Catherine Palace in St Petersburg used these so-called sun stones from Kaliningrad region to recreate an exact copy of the lost Amber Room. This project took 24 years and was completed in 2003, when St Petersburg marked its 300th anniversary. ⚓️ Kaliningrad hosts the Museum of the World Ocean,Russia’s one-of-a-kind museum dedicated to all of maritime science, nature and technology. Its exhibits include ships such as the Vityaz, Kosmonavt Viktor Patsayev – a space communications vessel which used to be part of the Space Service Ship Fleet, as well as the submarine B-413, the fishing boat SRT-129, lightship Irbensky, the Be-12 hydroplane and even a sperm whaleskeleton. #RussiaDay2024