Kutuzovo, Krasnoznamensky District, Kaliningrad Oblast

Kutuzovo (Russian: Куту́зово; German: Schirwindt) is a sparsely populated rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnoznamensky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the eastern extreme of the oblast. As Schirwindt, it was a part of Germany until the end of World War II.

The former German name of the settlement is of Baltic origin. Before 1945, Schirwindt was a small frontier town in the German province of East Prussia. It was notable for being the easternmost settlement in the old German Reich. A toll booth and checkpoint operated on the German border with Russia (then later interwar Lithuania and, briefly, the Soviet Union). The Lithuanian town of Kudirkos Naumiestis (German: Neustadt Schirwindt, lit. "Schirwindt New Town"; Naumiestis also means "new town" in Lithuanian) lay just across the frontier.

Being the easternmost settlement in Germany, Schirwindt was also the first German town to see sunrise, a fact that was incorporated into its former coat of arms, which featured a Prussian eagle atop a rising sun. The coat of arms was granted by King Frederick William IV on 3 August 1846.

From 1725 to 1945 Schirwindt formed part of the Pillkallen administrative district (Landkreis Pillkallen) within the Gumbinnen government district (Regierungsbezirk Gumbinnen) within the Province of East Prussia. With no more than 1000 inhabitants at any given time, Schirwindt was one of the smallest towns in the province. It became part of the German Empire in 1871.

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