Gumbinnen

Gusev (English) Гусев (Russian)
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Location of Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia
Gusev Location of Gusev in Kaliningrad Oblast
Coordinates: 54°35′N 22°12′E / 54.583°N 22.200°E / 54.583; 22.200Coordinates: 54°35′N 22°12′E / 54.583°N 22.200°E / 54.583; 22.200

Coat of arms	Flag
Administrative status (as of December 2010)
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Kaliningrad Oblast
Administrative district	Gusevsky District
Town of district significance	Gusev
Administrative center of	Gusevsky District, town of district significance of Gusev
Municipal status (as of May 2013)
Urban okrug	Gusevsky Urban Okrug
Administrative center of	Gusevsky Urban Okrug
Statistics
Population (2010 Census)	28,260 inhabitants
Time zone	USZ1 (UTC+02:00)
First mentioned	1580
Town status since	1724
Previous names	Gumbinnen (until 1945)
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Gusev (Russian: Гу́сев), previously known by its German name Gumbinnen (Lithuanian: Gumbinė; Polish: Gąbin), is a town and the administrative center of Gusevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Pissa and Krasnaya Rivers, near the border with Poland and Lithuania, east of Chernyakhovsk. Population: 28,260 (2010 Census);28,467 (2002 Census);27,031 (1989 Census).

The settlement of Gumbinnen (from Lithuanian: Gumbinė: tuber) in the Duchy of Prussia was first mentioned in a 1580 deed. The settlement had been laid out at the behest of the Hohenzollern duke Albert of Prussia in 1545.

In 1709-1711, the area was devastated by the plague and had to be redeveloped under the rule of King Frederick William I of Prussia. He granted Gumbinnen town privileges in 1724 and from 1732 resettled the area with Protestant expellees from the Archbishopric of Salzburg, who had been exiled by Prince-Archbishop Count Leopold Anton von Firmian. A first church of the Salzburg Protetants was erected in 1752 and rebuilt according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1840.