Kaliningrad Devau Airport is located 5 km northeast of Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea...

. Today it is a small general aviation

General aviation

General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

 airfield and is also used for sports aviation. There are Antonov An-2

Antonov An-2

The Antonov An-2 is a single-engine biplane utility/agricultural aircraft designed in the USSR in 1946...

 aircraft parked on the site.

The airport opened as Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

 Devau Airport in 1921 after the Polish corridor

Polish Corridor

The Polish Corridor , also known as Danzig Corridor, Corridor to the Sea or Gdańsk Corridor, was a territory located in the region of Pomerelia , which provided the Second Republic of Poland with access to the Baltic Sea, thus dividing the bulk of Germany from the province of East...

 separated East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia is the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast from the 13th century to the end of World War II in May 1945. From 1772–1829 and 1878–1945, the Province of East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia. The capital city was Königsberg.East Prussia...

 from the main part of Germany. The main building was designed by the architect Hanns Hopp

Hanns Hopp

Hanns Hopp was a German architect.He was born in Lübeck and studied at the University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Munich. From 1918 he was employed as an architect for the local authorities in Königsberg , and from 1920 for the Deutsche Ostmesse, or Eastern Fair...

, who was the architect of several public and private buildings erected in Königsberg in the 1920s.

The airport in Devau was used by the airlines of Lufthansa and Deruluft

Deruluft

Deruluft was a joint Soviet-German airline, established on 24 November 1921. Deruluft opened its first service to Moscow from Königsberg on 1 May 1922...

, which connected Königsberg with Berlin and Moscow and other destinations.

After World War II

World War II

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, Devau was discontinued as the main airport by the Soviets, in favor of Khrabrovo Airport

Khrabrovo Airport

Khrabrovo Airport is located north of Kaliningrad, east off the Zelenogradsk highway. The airport, part of which is still military, is a bare landing strip with few frills for passengers.-History:...

. Parts of the original main building still exists and is used by the Kaliningrad Sport Aviation Club.