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Kaliningrad goes down as one of those 'interesting' but not necessarily pleasant experiences. The area is the least developed of the countries I passed through with roads that varied widely in quality and no particular infrastructure for cyclists. There are also some restricted areas in Kaliningrad where you are not supposed to visit which had me worried whenever I passed by any military infrastructure.
That said, the locals were always friendly (even if knowledge of English was limited to non existent), there were always corner stores where you could pick up some basics so you are never going to be caught short and the relatively undeveloped nature of Kaliningrad made wild camping a breeze. Cyclists were seen but it appeared these were people travelling by cycle by necessity rather than design.
Kaliningrad the city was harder work. Riga and Gdansk both gave ample allowance for cyclists but you couldn't say the same for the city of Kaliningrad.
Getting through the borders was a relative breeze on a bike given that i was able to filter through to the front of queues - not so much an issue at the Lithuania-Russia border on the Curonian Spit but more of an issue at the Russia-Poland border at Mamonovo.