Bagrationovsk
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Bagrationovsk (Russian: Багратио́новск; German: Preußisch Eylau; Lithuanian: Yluva or Prūsų Ylava; Polish: Pruska Iława or Iławka) is a small town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located some 37 km south of Kaliningrad, at . Population: 7,000 (2004 est.); 7,216 (2002 Census); 4,300 (1968).
The Teutonic Knights built a castle at the location of Bagrationovsk in 1325. The settlement which developed nearby, known as Preußisch Eylau, received its civic charter in 1585. The bloody Battle of Eylau (1807) during the Napoleonic Wars involved the French troops of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Russian troops of General Bennigsen.
In the final stages of World War II, the Soviet Red Army occupied the town in Spring 1945. The German population fled during the evacuation of East Prussia or was subsequently expelled. It became part of the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast and in 1946 the Soviet authorities renamed Eylau to Bagrationovsk, after General Pyotr Bagration, who had served as an officer in the Napoleonic Battle of Eylau.
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