Mayakovskoye

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Nemmersdorf roadsign as it appeared in the Deutsche Wochenschau in 1944, when it reported about combat in the area before the massacre.
Nemmersdorf roadsign as it appeared in the Deutsche Wochenschau in 1944, when it reported about combat in the area before the massacre.

Mayakovskoye (Russian: Маяко́вское, German: Nemmersdorf, Lithuanian: Nemirkiemis) is a settlement in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located to the south east of the town of Gusev (Gumbinnen), on the banks of the Angrapa (Angerapp) river.

Until 1945, the settlement Nemmersdorf was a part of German East Prussia. It became known during World War II on October 1944 as the site of the first Soviet war crime on German territory against Germans, the Nemmersdorf massacre.

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Coordinates: 54°31′12″N 22°03′56″E / 54.52, 22.06556