It is referred to locally as the “Monster”, or as one Tripadvisor reviewer put it: “Brutalism at its very best.” The collapse of the Soviet Union inevitably spelt change for Kaliningrad ...

“Kaliningrad is now an energy island, meaning it must generate all its electricity independently,” Tomas Janeliūnas, the ...

Since February 8, 2025, power plants in the Kaliningrad Region, managed by Inter RAO Group, have been providing the region with electricity without export and import flows with the Baltic countries.