Mendeleyevo Microdistrict

Until 1947, it was known by its German name Juditten (Lithuanian: Judyčių; Polish: Judyty) as first a suburb of and then a quarter of Königsberg, Germany.

Separately, Eugen Reichel, a historian of Gottsched, attributed the name to a converted Sudovian chieftain known as Gedete who had relocated to Sambia.

In 1760 the estate was purchased by the wine merchant Balthasar Schindelmeißer,[4] a member of Königsberg Castle's Blutgericht tavern after 1805.

[5] In 1808 his successor Johann Richter hosted King Frederick William III and Queen Louise several times.

Juditten developed into a garden town suburb; the conservation of the parish copse was due to the efforts of the Königsberg city councillor Theodor Krohne (1846–1925).

The fort VI Königin Luise, named in 1894, was built near Juditten as part of the new Königsberg fortifications constructed from 1872 to 1894.

The village was included within the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and renamed Mendeleyevo on 25 July 1947.