Gusev (RU)

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Gusev (Russian: Гу́сев), previously known by its German name Gumbinnen , is a town (28,260 inhabitants in 2010) and the administrative center of Gusevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Pissa and Krasnaya Rivers, near the border with Poland and Lithuania, east of Chernyakhovsk. From 1815, Gumbinnen was the capital of Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen, an administrative district of the Province of East Prussia, and became part of the German Empire upon the unification of Germany in 1871. In 1860 the Prussian State railway line from Königsberg to Stallupönen (now Nesterov) was built and the route passed through Gumbinnen, causing the town to grow in economic importance in the region. Exonyms: Lithuanian: Gumbinė; Polish: Gąbin.

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Historically in the East province of Prussia, district of Königsberg.

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It used a postal code 557.