Train station in Bolshakovo (Novoye)
'Bolshakovo' (), also referred to as 'Bolshakovo-Novoye' (); until
1938—'Groß Skaisgirren', from 1938 to
1946—'Kreuzingen') is a
settlement located in the southern part of
Slavsky District of
Kaliningrad Oblast,
Russia, 90 km from
Kaliningrad. The adjective "Novoye" (new) is sometimes used to distinguish it from an eponymous village in
Ivanovo Oblast of Russia.
It is situated on the road from
Talpaki to
Sovetsk. There are also roads from Bolshakovo to
Polessk and to
Chernyakhovsk. Bolshakovo is a
railway station on the
Kaliningrad–Sovetsk line.
Bolshakovo lies on the border of
Polessk Lowland in a marsh landscape and has approximately 2,000 inhabitants. Until the end of
World War II, the biggest live stock railway station of
Germany was located here.
Bolshakovo is a transmission site of the ''
Voice of Russia'' broadcasting station.
Kreuzingen on a 1930s map of East Prussia
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