MOSCOW, July 4 Sergei Mironov, head of Just Russia — For Truth, proposed renaming Kaliningrad to Vladibaltiysk, and the Kaliningrad region — to the Baltic Territory. «Perhaps, the time has come to think about giving the status of a region to a region of strategic importance for our country, as well as renaming Kaliningrad in accordance with modern realities and domestic traditions. For example, Vladibaltiysk and, accordingly, , Baltic region,» the politician wrote in his Telegram channel. 
nasty things»: blockade of KaliningradAccording to him, the region is strategically important for the country, and such changes will indicate its status as a «western outpost.» From this name it immediately becomes clear that we are talking about an outpost on the extreme western border of our Motherland, which stretches from Ti hogo ocean to the Baltic. But, of course, this issue should be resolved by the inhabitants of the region,” he concluded. The modern Kaliningrad region is located on part of the territory of the former German province of East Prussia. At the final stage of the Great Patriotic War in 1945, the East Prussian offensive operation of the Soviet troops took place here, during where the Red Army occupied East Prussia and liberated the northern part of Poland.After World War II, by decision of the Potsdam Conference of the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, most of East Prussia became part of Poland, a third of the territory with the capital Koenigsberg passed to the USSR.In 1946, the city was renamed Kaliningrad in honor of the deceased Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, a prominent Bolshevik and Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin.
