A monument dedicated to the first settlers who moved in 1945-1950 in the Kaliningrad region and took an active part in its reconstruction, in the shape of bronze figures of an officer with his wife and young son, has opened in the border city of Sovetsk near the state border with Lithuania. The Kaliningrad region has emerged from the USSR Field the end of the Second world war. First it was the area of the German province of East Prussia, but in the end the East Prussian offensive operation of Soviet troops in the great Patriotic war, the red army broke through the defenses of the enemy, came To the Baltic sea, occupied East Prussia. According to the Potsdam agreement of 1945 part of the territory of the USSR, the rest of Poland. "Statuary bronze weighing 973 kg approved on the forecourt Near the locomotive, 1943 edition. There are stylized stop pavilions. All this embodies the idea of the author about how the first settlers arrive at the station of the new Soviet city, they seem confused and excited, " said Fins news the chief architect of the Soviet Alexei Smargin. at the festival of municipalities of the Kaliningrad region the settlers Monument by sculptor Andrei Shevtsov won a prize that allowed the city of Sovetsk get 1, 5 million rubles from the regional government for its implementation. Near the monument installed plaque with the dedication of the monument to the first settlers who took an active part in the restoration of the destroyed area. After the victory in the great Patriotic war in the conquered Soviet troops territory was formed the Konigsberg region of the RSFSR. In July 1945 it was renamed to Kaliningrad. Mass migration in the region the population of other regions of the country was initiated by the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated July 9, 1946, signed by Joseph Stalin. By 1947 the local population (mainly German and Prussian Lithuanians) were deported to Germany. In the process of the resettlement campaign 1946-1948, the basis of area residents amounted residents received the most damage to the Russian regions, as well as immigrants from Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic States. By the early 50-ies of the process of mass resettlement was completed.