Chernyshevskoye is a settlement

Types of settlements in Russia

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 in Nesterovsky District in the eastern part of Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast is a federal subject of Russia situated on the Baltic coast. It has a population of The oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia. Since its creation it has been an exclave of the Russian SFSR and then the...

, Russia

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, on the border with Lithuania

Lithuania

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Between Chernyshevskoye and Lithuanian Kybartai

Kybartai

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 is an important 24-hour border crossing point on the A229 principal road and the railway route connecting Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...

 with Moscow

Moscow

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 through the European Union

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 member Lithuania and Belarus

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. Until 1945 a part of the German province of East Prussia

Province of East Prussia

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, Eydtkuhnen was the easternmost terminus of the Prussian Eastern Railway finished in 1860 connecting Berlin

Berlin

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 with the Saint Petersburg – Warsaw Railway in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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. To continue their voyage, passengers e.g. of the Nord Express

Nord Express

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 had to change over to a Russian gauge

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 train.

The railway connection decisively promoted Eydtkuhnen's development: The Lutheran church built by Friedrich Adler

Friedrich Adler (architect)

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 was consecrated in 1889, the settlement received town privileges in 1922. Nevertheless Eydtkuhnen was devastated during the Russian invasion of East Prussia in 1914 and again in 1945 during the East Prussian Offensive

East Prussian Offensive

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 of the Red Army

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. With the implementation of the Oder-Neisse line

Oder-Neisse line

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 after World War II, the area became part of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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Persons

• Dieter Biallas (* 1936), German Politician
• Felix Bressart
  Felix Bressart
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   (1892—1949), German-American actor
• Marie Madeleine (1881–1944), writer