The Baltic resort of Svetlogorsk in Russia’s Kaliningrad region is located on top of a cliff above the sea. To bring visitors down to the beach, the city’s unique fleet of tiny yellow gondolas carries just one or two people at a time. The town became a fashionable vacation spot in the early 19th century, back when the resort was called Rauschen and belonged to the German province of East Prussia. Because a sand dune limited access to the sea, much of the tourism was initially centered around the lake,…
