Kaliningrad region

Main article: Subjects of the Russian Federation

The Kaliningrad region is a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, part of the North-Western Federal District, the area is 15.1 thousand km ².

Illustration: maps-rf.ru

Federal authorities

Territorial branches of federal authorities:

• Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia for the Kaliningrad Region
  • GBU KO "Detachment of the State Fire Service and Support of Civil Defense Measures"

• Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kaliningrad region
• Office of the Federal Security Service for the Kaliningrad Region
• PFR branch in the Kaliningrad region
• Notary Chamber of Kaliningrad Region

Government

Main article: Government of Kaliningrad region

• Ministry of Economic Development, Industry and Trade of Kaliningrad Oblast
  • Foundation "Center for Entrepreneurship Support of the Kaliningrad Region"

• Ministry of Digital Technologies and Communications of the Kaliningrad Region

• Ministry of Education of the Kaliningrad Region
• Ministry of Health of the Kaliningrad Region
• Ministry of Social Policy of the Kaliningrad Region
  • GKU KO "Employment Center of the Kaliningrad Region"
  • OGKU KO "Center for Social Support of the Population"

• Ministry of Sports of the Kaliningrad Region
  • GAU KO "Kaliningrad Stadium"

• Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Kaliningrad Region
  • Fund for the overhaul of common property in apartment buildings

MPSC

• MPSC Kaliningrad Region
• MPSC of the city of Guryevsk

Special economic zone in the Kaliningrad region

• Special economic zone in the Kaliningrad region

Settlements

• Administration of the city district "City of Kaliningrad"
  • MP Kaliningradteploset
  • MBU "Hydrotechnik"
  • MCP Kaliningrad-GorTrans
  • MKU "Center for Traffic Management and Passenger Transportation"

Transport

Rail transport

• Kaliningrad Suburban Passenger Company

Airports

• Kaliningrad International Airport (Khrabrovo)

Ports

• Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port

Stations

• State Enterprise of the Kaliningrad Region "Bus Station"

Information Technology

Ministry of Digital Technologies and Communications of the Kaliningrad Region

• GAU KO "Kaliningrad State Research Center for Information and Technical Security"

• IT companies in Gusev
• IT companies in Kaliningrad

2023

How is the digitalization of the Kaliningrad region going. Results of the year

At the end of May 2024, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Digital Technologies and Communications of the Kaliningrad Region Levan Daraselia spoke about some of the results of the digitalization of the region in 2023. According to him, the digital maturity of the Kaliningrad region in 2023 reached 82.8%, which is 16.5 percentage points more than a year earlier.

Daraselia also cited data according to which 84 mass socially significant services (MSZU) were provided electronically in 2023. During the year, residents of the region submitted almost 126 thousand applications for regional and municipal services in electronic form (an increase of 50%), said the deputy head of the regional government.

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As part of the import substitution of software in the executive authorities of the Kaliningrad region, the "Information System in the field of procurement" was updated, which made it possible to increase the share of domestic technologies in it to 72%. In 2023, the share of newly purchased domestic software for the authorities of the Kaliningrad region and subordinate state institutions amounted to 100%.

In 2023, all executive authorities of the region and local self-government were connected to the Unified Electronic Document Management System (GIS ESED). At the end of 2023, 177 subordinate state institutions and 91 subordinate organizations are also connected to the system.

Levan Daraselia also spoke about the development of the Safe City hardware and software complex. With the participation of municipalities, 844 video cameras were connected to the regional video surveillance system during 2023, of which 67 were connected with face recognition and 25 were connected with the function of recognizing state registration plates of cars. In total, 158 cameras with video analytics for face recognition worked on the territory of nine municipalities of the region by the end of 2023.^[1]

Launch of simplified e-commerce between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of Russia

The Federal Customs Service of Russia registered the first participant in the experiment on electronic trade in goods between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of Russia. It was the owner of a temporary storage warehouse and a customs representative of Avtotransgarant LLC. This became known in early October 2023.

Entrepreneurs who want to send their goods to the rest of the country duty-free as part of the experiment - you can contact the first participant in the experiment. And entrepreneurs who want to become participants in the experiment (just like the first participant), please note that the conditions for obtaining such a status are quite loyal, - wrote the governor of the region Anton Alikhanov on his Telegram channel.

FCS registered the first participant in the experiment on electronic trade in goods with the Kaliningrad region

In July 2023, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on an experiment to simplify electronic trade between the Kaliningrad region and the mainland. In particular, the document simplified customs procedures when moving goods from the Russian exclave.

Previously, goods exported outside the special economic zone, which coincides with the borders of the Kaliningrad region, were subject to customs control. Duty-free export of goods was possible only personally. This circumstance hindered the development of online commerce in the region, the Cabinet of Ministers notes.

As part of the experiment, the export of goods from the Kaliningrad region will be issued according to the passenger customs declaration for express cargo by customs representatives who will become intermediaries between Kaliningrad sellers and buyers from the rest of the country. Such a simplified procedure will be applied if the cost and weight of goods do not exceed the norm of 1 thousand euros and 31 kg, respectively. It is such parameters that are established by the documents of the Eurasian Economic Union for duty-free import of personal goods.^[2]

Digitalization

• Information technology cluster of Kaliningrad region

Power

• Kaliningrad TETs-2

Culture

• FSBUK "Museum of the World Ocean"

Education

Ministry of Education of the Kaliningrad Region

• Children's Technopark "Quantorium" (structural unit of GAU KO DO "Kaliningrad Regional Children's and Youth Center for Ecology, Local Lore and Tourism")

UNIVERSITIES of the Kaliningrad region

• I. Kant Baltic Federal University
• Kaliningrad Border Institute of the FSB of the Russian Federation
• Kaliningrad State Technical University
  • Baltic State Academy of Fishing Fleet of FSBEI VO KSTU

Colleges and organizations of DPO

• GBU KO PO "Pedagogical College"
• SBEI SPO KO "Gusevsky Polytechnic College"
• GAU KO DPO "Institute for the Development of Education"
• GAU KO "Kaliningrad State Research Center for Information and Technical Security"

Agriculture

• Kaliningrad potassium

Tourism

2024: A tourist complex with a water park for 77 billion rubles will be built near Kaliningrad

On April 26, 2024, the government of the Kaliningrad region presented a project for a year-round tourist complex with the Aquapolis water park. Volna will be engaged in its implementation, and the total investment is estimated at 77 billion rubles. Read more here.

2023: Tourist flow reached more than 2 million people for the first time in a year

In August 2024, it became known that the Kaliningrad region for the first time received more than 2 million tourists per year, which was a record figure for the region. According to the Minister for Culture and Tourism of the region Andrei Yermak, in 2023, about 2.05 million people visited the region, which is 11% more compared to 2022. This significant increase in tourist flow indicates increased interest in the region as one of the key tourist destinations in Russia.

According to RBC, the main stream of tourists arrived in the region by air through Khrabrovo airport, which also reached record levels, serving more than 4 million passengers. This is 15.4% more than in 2023. Railway transport also played an important role in ensuring tourist flow: from January to November 2023, long-distance trains transported 293 thousand people to Kaliningrad and back, which is 11.7% higher than in 2022.

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Bloomberg

The average occupancy of hotels in the Kaliningrad region at the end of 2023 was about 70-71%. The greatest demand for places in hotels was recorded in the summer, when the booking level on the Baltic coast reached 98-99%, and in Kaliningrad - up to 90%. This high rate of hotel occupancy indicates the significant popularity of the region during the warm season.

The economic effect of the record tourist flow was also impressive. According to preliminary estimates of Sberbank PJSC, the volume of tourist spending in the region in 2023 amounted to ₽20,7 billion, which is 40% more than in 2022. The largest spending of tourists fell on July - ₽3,79 billion, which is 24% more than in the same period in 2022. The volume of cash withdrawn on cards amounted to ₽2,5 billion, an increase of 21% compared to 2022.^[3]

Health care

Article: Healthcare in Kaliningrad Oblast

Ministry of Health of the Kaliningrad Region

Clinics

Medical centers

• GKUZ "Medical Information and Analytical Center of the Kaliningrad Region"
• FSBI "Federal Center for High Medical Technologies" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
• GBUZ "Oncological Center of the Kaliningrad Region"
• Cancer center in the village of Rodniki

Hospitals

• GBUZ "Regional Clinical Hospital of the Kaliningrad Region"
• GBUZ "Children's Regional Hospital of the Kaliningrad Region"
• GAUZ "Guryev Central District Hospital"
• GBUZ KO "Gusevskaya Central District Hospital"
• GBUZ KO "Central City Clinical Hospital"
• GBUZ KO "City Hospital No. 2"
• GBUZ KO "City Hospital No. 3"
• GBUZ KO "City Hospital No. 4"

Policlinics

• GBUZ KO "City Children's Polyclinic"
• Ars Medica LLC

Clinics

• GBUZ "Anti-tuberculosis dispensary of the Kaliningrad region"

Ambulance

• GBUZ KO "City Clinical Emergency Hospital"

Maternity hospitals

• GBU KO "Regional Perinatal Center"
• GBUZ KO "Maternity Hospital of the Kaliningrad Region No. 4"

Stomatology

• GBUZ KO "City Children's Dental Clinic"

Organizations of the Kaliningrad region

• Organizations in Gusev
• IT companies in Gusev

• Organizations in Kaliningrad
• IT companies in Kaliningrad

History

1939

German heavy armored vehicles Sd. Kfz. 232 (6-Rad) go along the street of the city of Tilsit (future Sovetsk), heading to Klaipeda. 1939

1700: Prussia

Main article: 1700

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