Chernyakhovsk

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Chernyakhovsk

Черняховск
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Coordinates: 54°38′05″N21°48′43″E / 54.63472°N 21.81194°E / 54.63472; 21.81194 Coordinates: 54°38′05″N21°48′43″E / 54.63472°N 21.81194°E / 54.63472; 21.81194
Country Russia
Federal subject Kaliningrad Oblast [1]
Administrative district Chernyakhovsky District [1]
Town of district significance Chernyakhovsk [1]
Founded1337 [2]
Town status since10 October 1583
Area
 • Total58 km2 (22 sq mi)
Elevation
30 m (100 ft)
Population
 • Estimate 
(2018) [3]
35,888
 • Density628/km2 (1,630/sq mi)
 •  Capital ofChernyakhovsky District [1] , town of district significance of Chernyakhovsk [1]
 •  Municipal district Chernyakhovsky Municipal District [4]
 • Urban settlementChernyakhovskoye Urban Settlement [4]
 •  Capital ofChernyakhovsky Municipal District [4] , Chernyakhovskoye Urban Settlement [4]
Time zone UTC+2 (MSK–1   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg [5] )
Postal code(s) [6]
238150–238154, 238158, 238165, 238169, 238170, 238816
Dialing code(s) +7 40141
OKTMO ID27739000001
Website inster39.ru

Chernyakhovsk (Russian : Черняхо́вск) – known prior to 1946 by its German name of Loudspeaker.svg Insterburg [7] (Lithuanian : Įsrutis; Polish : Wystruć) – is a town in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, where it is the administrative center of Chernyakhovsky District. Located at the confluence of the Instruch and Angrapa rivers, which unite to become the Pregolya River below Chernyakhovsk, the town had a population in 2017 of 36,423.

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History

Chernyakhovsk was founded in 1336 by the Teutonic Knights on the site of a former Old Prussian fortification when Dietrich von Altenburg, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, built a castle called Insterburg following the Prussian Crusade. [2] During the Teutonic Knights' Northern Crusades campaign against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the town was devastated in 1376 and then again by Polish troops in 1457. The castle had been rebuilt as the seat of a Procurator and a settlement also named Insterburg grew up to serve it.

When the Prussian Duke Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1525 secularized the monastic State of the Teutonic Order, Insterburg became part of the Duchy of Prussia and was granted town privileges on 10 October 1583 by the Prussian regent Margrave George Frederick.[ citation needed ] Insterburg became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, and because the area had been depopulated by plague in the early 18th century, King Frederick William I of Prussia invited Protestant refugees who had been expelled from the Archbishopric of Salzburg to settle in Insterburg in 1732.

In 1818, after the Napoleonic Wars, the town became the seat of Insterburg District within the Gumbinnen Region. Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly died at Insterburg in 1818 on his way from his Livonian manor to Germany, where he wanted to renew his health. In 1863, a Polish secret organization was founded and operated in Insterburg, which was involved in arms trafficking to the Russian Partition of Poland during the January Uprising. Since May 1864, the leader of the organization was Józef Racewicz.

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A postcard view of Insterburg's Hindenburgstraße in about 1890

Insterburg became a part of the German Empire following the 1871 unification of Germany, and on May 1, 1901, it became an independent city separate from Insterburg District. During World War I the Russian Army seized Insterburg on 24 August 1914, but it was retaken by Germany on 11 September 1914. The Weimar Germany era after World War I saw the town separated from the rest of the country as the province of East Prussia had become an exclave. The association football club Yorck Boyen Insterburg was formed in 1921. During World War II, Insterburg was heavily bombed by the British Royal Air Force on July 27, 1944. The town was stormed by Red Army troops on January 21–22, 1945. As part of the northern part of East Prussia, Insterburg was transferred from Germany to the Soviet Union after the war as previously agreed between the victorious powers at the Potsdam Conference. The German population was either evacuated or expelled and replaced with Russians. On 7 April 1946, Insterburg was renamed as Chernyakhovsk in honor of the Soviet World War II Army General, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, who commanded the army that first entered East Prussia in 1944. [2]

After 1989, a group of people introduced the Akhal-Teke horse breed to the area and opened an Akhal-Teke breeding stable.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Chernyakhovsk serves as the administrative center of Chernyakhovsky District. [1] As an administrative division, it is, together with five rural localities, incorporated within Chernyakhovsky District as the town of district significance of Chernyakhovsk. [1] As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Chernyakhovsk is incorporated within Chernyakhovsky Municipal District as Chernyakhovskoye Urban Settlement. [4]

YearNumber
17904,972, without military [8]
187516,303 [9]
188018,745 [9]
188522,227 [9]
189031,624, incl. 437 Catholics and 348 Jews [9]
190027,787, incl. 788 Catholics and 350 Jews [10]
191031,624, incl. 29,672 Protestants and 1,040 Catholics [9]
192539,311, incl. 36,792 Protestants, 1,174 Catholics, 86 other Christians, and 338 Jews [9]
193341,230, incl. 39,458 Protestants, 1,078 Catholics, five other Christians, and 273 Jews [9]
193943,620, incl. 40,677 Protestants, 1,388 Catholics, 563 other Christians, and 87 Jews [9]
1959approx. 29,100[ citation needed ]
1979approx. 35,600[ citation needed ]
1989 Census 39,622 [11]
2002 Census 44,323 [12]
2010 Census 40,449 [13]

Military

Chernyakhovsk is home to the Chernyakhovsk naval air facility.

Coat of Arms Controversy

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Coat of arms of Insterburg

On September 2019 the local court ruled [14] that the coat of arms was illegal because it carries "elements of foreign culture." The local court alleged that Russian laws do not allow the use of foreign languages and symbols in Russian state symbols and ordered the town "to remove any violations of the law."

The town's coat of arms, adopted in 2002, was based on the historic coat of arms of the town that before 1946 was known under its original Prussian name - Insterburg.

The full version of coat of arms in question has a picture of a Prussian man with a horn and the Latin initials G.F. for the Regent of Prussia George Frederick, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1543–1603), who gave Insterburg the status of town and with it his family coat of arms.

The case brought before the court follows a trend among several towns in the region that have announced their intentions to change their coat of arms as tensions mount between Russia and the West following Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea in 2014 and its support for pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's east. [14]

Notable people

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  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Law #262
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  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Michael Rademacher: Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte Ostpreußen - Kreis Insterburg (2006)
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Mikhaylovsky Cathedral in Chernyakhovsk

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