Mendeleyevo, Kaliningrad Oblast
Mendeleyevo (Russian: Менделеево) is a rural locality (a settlement) in the Guryevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. As Poggenpfuhl (Lithuanian: Pogenfulis), it was part of Germany until the end of World War II.
History[]
The locality was known as Poggenpfuhl until 1946.[1]
On 30 April 1874 it became the seat of Amtsbezirk Poggenpfuhl within East Prussia.[2] Until 1939 it was part of , then from 1939 to 1945 part of im Regierungsbezirk Königsberg. Besides Poggenpful itself, the Amtsbezirk also contained the villages Brasdorf and Kuggen-Waldhaus.
On 1 December 1910 Poggenpfuhl contained 272 residents.[3] The community expanded on 15 November 1928 by incorporating neighboring Kuggen. Its population was 482 in 1933 and 462 in 1939.[4]
Poggenpfuhl, along with the rest of northern East Prussia, was transferred to the Soviet Union in 1945 after World War II and subsequently renamed Mendeleyevo.
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Coordinates: 54°47′20″N 20°44′53″E / 54.78889°N 20.74806°E
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