Gumbinnen

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Gumbinnen was a town in former East Prussia (now Gusev, Russia) that served as a significant site of military operations on the Eastern Front in both World Wars.

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Gumbinnen canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf town
administrativeFunction seat of a Regierungsbezirk in East Prussia
battle Battle of Gumbinnen
battleBelligerent German Empire
Russian Empire
battleDate 20 August 1914
battleTheater Eastern Front of World War I
linked to: Eastern Front
country Germany
currentAdministrativeUnit town of Gusev in Kaliningrad Oblast
formerCountry German Empire
Nazi Germany
Weimar Republic
historicalRegion East Prussia
Prussia
languageHistoricallySpoken German
Lithuanian
Polish
locatedIn East Prussia
Gusevsky District
Kaliningrad Oblast
Kingdom of Prussia
linked to: Prussia

Province of East Prussia
linked to: East Prussia

Russia
namedAfter Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov (as Gusev, indirectly via hero Sergei Gusev)
nearbyCity Insterburg
Königsberg
partOf Gumbinnen District
Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen
post1945Status annexed by the Soviet Union
population largely expelled or fled
renamed Gusev
postwarAdministration Soviet military administration
pre1945PopulationCharacter ethnically mixed German, Polish, and Lithuanian population
presentDayCountry Russia
presentDayName Gusev
regionType borderland area between Germany and Russia
religionHistoricallyDominant Protestantism
religionHistoricallyPresent Judaism
Lutheranism
Roman Catholicism
role regional administrative center
significantEvent Battle of Gumbinnen
World War I Eastern Front operations
World War II Eastern Front operations
strategicImportance military crossroads on the Eastern Front
timeZoneCurrent Kaliningrad Time
transport railway junction

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Gusev formerName Gumbinnen