Aleksandra Kosmodemyanskogo

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Aleksandra Kosmodemyanskogo, formerly Lesnoy, is a village in the Kaliningrad Oblast a few kilometres west of Kaliningrad.

Prior to the creation of the Kaliningrad Oblast in 1945 the village was known as Metgethen in the German province of East Prussia.

In 1945 during the battle of Battle of Königsberg a German counter-attack recaptured the village from the Red Army. The Germans accused the Red Army of carrying out a massacre in the village while it was under temporary Soviet occupation.