Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian semi-exclave in Europe

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 04 January 2019 at 04:51:37 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 16 January 2019 at 04:51:37 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 28 January 2019 at 04:51:36 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 13 March 2022 at 09:50:31 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Land, security, transport, Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Baltic Sea
Fig. 1 - S2 (13.03.2022) - This Russian region was part of the State of the Teutonic Order in 1255, then of the German semi-exclave of East Prussia up to 1945.
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The area of East Prussia was 36 993 km², which of 15 100 km² were attributed to USSR to compensate for the destruction & losses suffered during the Second World War.
Fig. 2 - S1 (04->28.01.2019) - The oblast had ~1.1 million inhabitants in 1950, displaced from USSR states, 1 million people live there now.
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Of the 2.2 million inhabitants of East Prussia in 1940, most fled. The 193 000 remaining at the end of May 1945 were expulsed.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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