Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad regularly hosts a variety of musical events, including international ones: the organ competition named after. M. Tariverdieva, jazz festival "Kaliningrad City Jazz", rock festival "Kaliningrad In Rock" and many others. Every autumn the Baltic Seasons art festival takes place - theater troupes from all over Russia present their best performances.
For a long time, Kaliningrad belonged to Germany. The history of the city began in 1255, when the knights of the Teutonic Order founded a fortress on a hill and named it Königsberg (Royal Mountain). The city first passed to Russia in 1758, after the victory in the Seven Years' War. However, in 1762 the lands were returned to the Kingdom of Prussia. Koenigsberg again became Russian in 1946, when, after the end of World War II, part of German territory was transferred to the USSR. At the same time, a new name appeared - Kaliningrad, in honor of the Soviet party leader Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin.