"A big city, … in which there is a university (for culture and sciences).The city is convenient for sea trade. Its location on a river contributes to the communication among internal parts of the country and adjoining or remote countries, where people speak other languages and where other customs reign , – such city as Koenigsberg on Pregele can be recognised as a suitable place for expansion of knowledge about Man and the World"

I. Kant. Sayings. Kaliningrad, 2000, p. 18.

Fifteen thousand persons are occupied in the scientific and educational complex of the region among which there are about one thousand scholars with scientific degrees. Scientific research is carried out in several higher educational institutions and in research organisations.

The leading classic higher-education institution in the region is the I. Kant State University of Russia, where the all basic natural sciences and humanities are represented. The scope of the implemented curricula is regularly updated and extended in view of the imperatives of our time. The university aspires to support the traditions of its historical predecessor – the Albertina University of Koenigsberg, with which the lives of a great philosopher Immanuil Kant and of some other famous scientists were closely linked.

The multi-profile Kaliningrad State Technical University is an old major tertiary-education institution, established in 1913 and oriented to the fish industry of Russia.

For more than 30 years, the Baltic State Academy of Fishery Fleet has been training skilled seamen.

There are some other higher educational institutions, including branches of Moscow universities, in the region.

Approximately 40 % of the research and design organisations, working in the Kaliningrad region, are connected with the sea and fishery/fish-processing complex. There are some scientific and designing institutes working in the engineering/construction, socio-economic, and other directions.