Königsberg - Kaliningrad: a journey to the city of amber, marzipan, sea, philosophers
Kaliningrad welcomes guests with wide avenues and small streets, there is a lot of greenery and you feel that the sea is very close.
Kaliningrad: Sea City
The Soviet diesel-electric submarine B-413 of Project 641 was installed in Kaliningrad as an exhibit of the World Ocean Museum in 2000.
Ocean diesel-electric submarines of project 641 were built from 1958 to 1971 at the Novo-Admiralty plant (Leningrad). A total of 75 boats were built, they performed tasks in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.
B-413 became part of the USSR Navy in 1968, until 1990 it was part of the Northern Fleet, later the Baltic Fleet.
On the submarine you can get with the tour daily (Tuesday is a day off).
The boat is installed on the embankment of Peter the Great, 1.
Visitors have the opportunity to get acquainted with the device of the ship, its technical and combat equipment.
Kaliningrad: the city of marzipan
Marzipan is an amazing delicacy, about which almost no one knows anything, few people have tried it, but everyone has heard about it.
Legends say that the product of crushed almonds and sugar syrup was invented as a medicine for mental anguish because of its positive effects on the nervous system.
You can help your soul and quench interest in an exquisite dessert in the amazing Kaliningrad marzipan museums.
One exposition is open at the Brandenburg Gate and there is also a unique family museum.
Kaliningrad: City of Amber
In the village of Yantarny (formerly Palmniken) opened "Kaliningrad amber plant", which conducts industrial extraction of amber stone.
The village is the world's largest deposit of amber (more than 90% of the world's mineraloid reserves are concentrated here).
It is believed that the reason for the opening of the museum exposition was the proximity to the village of Yantarny.
In 1969, the building of the Amber Museum was given to the building of the “Tower of the Don” and the Rosgarten Gate.
The museum collection contains unique exhibits - a nugget weighing 4 kg 280 g - the largest in the collection of the Amber Museum, and thousands of art products from this famous mineraloid.
Kaliningrad: City of Philosophers
The 300th anniversary of Immanuel Kant will be celebrated in 2024. In memory of this event, the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin proposed to hold an international Olympiad in philosophy in Kaliningrad.
Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher and thinker of the Enlightenment, was born in 1724 in Koenisberg, was a student at the University of Koenisberg.
Immanuel Kant was buried in the “professory tomb” of Kenisberg Cathedral in 1804, he became the last person to rest in it.
The city preserves the memory of Friedrich Schiller, a German poet, philosopher and playwright. The monument was erected in 1910 on the Theatre Square.
Text: Pauline M.
Photo: Alexei S.
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