Why hasn't Kaliningrad dropped it's Communist name and gone back to Koenigsberg?
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Well considering that Koenigsberg is the German name and there's only .87% Germans left there it would seem odd to use the German name. Mosre than 90% of the country are ethnic slavs (meaning the Russian name makes more sense to them) and 82% are ethnic Russians.