Chkalovsk Microdistrict

Chkalovsk (Russian Чкаловск until 1948 German fir forest ) is a former village, now part of Kaliningrad in Russia.

Chkalovsk belongs to Zentralrajon of Kaliningrad and has about 11,000 inhabitants. Included are the independent prior to 1945 villages Prowehren and Strittmatter germ. In the vicinity there is a military airfield. Here are a secondary school, a hospital and several smaller businesses. An Orthodox church was consecrated in 2010.

History

The site Fir forest in 1807 was first mentioned in records. In 1878 it became an independent municipality in the district Fischhausen. With the opening of the railway in 1900 Sambia fir forest was rail connection. In 1919, when the town already counted 432 inhabitants, was begun with the construction of the settlement fir forest northeast of the existing buildings.

In 1935, the Air Force military airfield was built, from the beginning of the Polish campaign in the III. / Lehrgeschwader 1 flew their attacks. The population had increased to 1938 to 2669. In 1939 the municipality pine wood from the district of Sambia in the urban district of Königsberg ( Pr ) was incorporated.

On 28 January 1945, the city was conquered by the Red Army, on 29 July 1948, he was named after the aviator Valery Pavlovich Chkalovsk Chkalov.

Church

In fir forest, Prowehren and Strittmatter germ lived a predominantly Protestant population before 1945. All three places were in the parish of the Church Wargen (now Russian: Kotelnikovo ) incorporated, the ( Primorsk ) belonged to the church district Fischhausen in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union.

In the 1920s, it became necessary to build in the emerging suburban settlement pine wood has its own church, which was consecrated in 1929. Pine wood remained Wargen parish officially connected, but curates were recruited who had their residence in pine wood. On 1 APRII 1930 an independent church was built in pine wood, which belonged to the church district Königsberg City later.

Today Chkalovsk lies in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad Kaliningrad within the provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia.

Traffic

Chkalovsk is on the railway line, Kaliningrad - Swetlogorsk, the former Sambia train, and on the trunk road from Kaliningrad to Swetlogorsk (noise), the former German Empire Road 143, and close to the ring road of Kaliningrad. In addition to the suburban rail there are buses to Kaliningrad.