Also Tilze, not only Sovietsk
Nov 04, 1999
By Rokas M. Tracevskis
VILNIUS - The Lithuanian State Language Commission has given the order for signs on routes to the Russian Kaliningrad enclave to show traditional Lithuanian place names. Official Russian names can be used also after Lithuanian names.Now highway signs in Lithuania will show the way to Karaliaucius (Kaliningrad), Tilze (Sovietsk), Gumbine (Gusev), Stalupenai (Nesterov), Ragaine (Nieman), Gastos (Slavsk). Danguole Mikuleniene, chairman of the commission, explained that traditional Lithuanian names ...
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