Yantar, Kaliningrad (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yantar Special Economic Zone has been established in 1996 in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation. "Yantar" means amber in Russian. Amber has been collected along the Baltic coasts of present day Kaliningrad Oblast since ancient times, and some sites are still worked today although the yield is relatively modest. After the split up of the former Soviet Union (USSR) in 1992/1993 the Russian Socialist Federal Republic (RSFSR) remained as the largest of the 15 republics of the former USSR. It comprises nearly 75% of the territory of the former USSR. In 1994 it was renamed the "Russian Federation" (RF). The Kaliningrad Region (Kaliningrad Oblast) is one of the 89 provinces (so-called "subjects of the federation") that make up the RF.