Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Place
Svetlogorsk (Russian: Светлого́рск ), prior to 1947 known by its German name Rauschen (Polish: Ruszowice; Lithuanian: Raušiai)), is a coastal resort town and the administrative center of Svetlogorsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the coast of the Baltic Sea on the Sambia Peninsula, 39 kilometers (24 mi) northwest of Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast.