Kaliningrad

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Zelenogradsk

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Svetlogorsk

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Pionerski

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Sovetsk

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Znamensk

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Baltisk

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Not Impressed? Kaliningrad's Jazz Festival

The first days in August mark Kaliningrad’s big summer event: The Don Chento Jazz Festival.

Hmmmm. Remind me. Don Chento? Didn’t he play bass with Count Basie? Or, just a minute, wasn’t he in Duke Ellington’s horn section?

Er, no. Don Chento is the adopted name of Kaliningrad pizzeria magnate, Vladimir Katzman. There’s usually a Don Chento [...]

Moving Baltic Sea

Above, the sailing ship ‘Lovis’. Below, the former Soviet sub B-413. Location, the Port of Kaliningrad. The connection is an environmental happening called Moving Baltic Sea, a kind of travelling circus seashow.

Propped by films, fun and festivities, Moving Baltic Sea promotes creative strategies for cultural and environmental co-operation between countries that share the same ecological [...]