Ushakovo, Novomoskovsky Rural Okrug, Guryevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast

Ushakovo

Ушако́во
Ushakovo Ушако́во
Rural locality
	Castle ruins
	Location of Ushakovo
	Ushakovo Location of Ushakovo Ushakovo Ushakovo (European Russia) Ushakovo Ushakovo (Russia)
	Coordinates: 54°36′47″N 20°14′56″E / 54.613°N 20.249°E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Kaliningrad Oblast
Administrative district	Guryevsky District
Founded	1266 (Julian)
Population (2010 Census)
• Total	812
Time zone	UTC+2 (MSK–1 )
OKTMO ID	27707000626

Ushakovo (Russian: Ушако́во; German: Brandenburg (Frisches Haff) or Brandenburg in Ostpreußen; Polish: Pokarmin; Lithuanian: Pokarviai) is a village in the Russian exclave Kaliningrad Oblast. It is situated at the mouth of the Prokhladnaya River at the Vistula Lagoon.

History

The Battle of Pokarwis between pagan Prussians and the Teutonic Knights took place nearby in 1261. The Teutonic Knights founded the village as Brandenburg to honor Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg who supported the order in the Prussian Crusade, and erected a castle in 1266. It became known as "Brandenburg (Frisches Haff)" and "Brandenburg in Ostpreußen" to differentiate it from Brandenburg an der Havel. In 1454, the region was incorporated by King Casimir IV Jagiellon to the Kingdom of Poland upon the request of the anti-Teutonic Prussian Confederation.^[3] After the subsequent Thirteen Years' War, the longest of all Polish–Teutonic wars, since 1466 it formed part of Poland as a fief held by the Teutonic Order,^[4] and after 1525 held by secular Ducal Prussia. From the 18th century it formed part of the Kingdom of Prussia, from 1871 it was also part of Germany. After Germany's defeat in World War II, it passed to Soviet Russia.

^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ Górski, Karol (1949). Związek Pruski i poddanie się Prus Polsce: zbiór tekstów źródłowych (in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. p. 54.
^ Górski, p. 96–97, 214–215

Krahe, Friedrich-Wilhelm (2000). Burgen des deutschen Mittelalters. Grundriss-Lexikon (in German). Flechsig. p. 694. ISBN 3-88189-360-1.

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