Imeni Alexandra Kosmodemyanskogo

Located in the Kaporner Heath north of the Vistula Lagoon, the village of Metgethen was first mentioned in Teutonic chronicles in 1278[1] as Myntigeite.

1900 and was popular for day trips,[1] especially its Vierbrüderkrug inn and the Vierbrüdersäule memorial honoring the legend of four half-brothers of the Teutonic Knights slain by Sudovians in the 13th century.

[4] The suburb contained the Landfrauenschule Metgethen, a school for East Prussian women, as well as the fire academy[5] and a Volkssportschule to train physical education teachers.

During World War II, the architect Alfred Fiedler of Tilsit, an ally of Erich Koch, constructed a cement factory in Metgethen which used Ukrainian forced labor to make anti-air defense.

German military personnel reported evidence of a massacre of civilians carried out by the Red Army during the three weeks the village was under Soviet occupation.