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	Vyborg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vyborg (Russian: Вы́борг; Finnish: Viipuri; Swedish: Viborg; German: Wiburg) is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, 130 km to the northwest of St. Petersburg, 38 km south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimensky Canal enters the Gulf of Finland.
		During the Finnish Civil War Viipuri was in the hands of the Reds, until it was captured by the Whites on 29 April 1918.
		The town was evacuated by June 19 and the defence of Viipuri was entrusted to the 20th Brigade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viipuri (966 words)

	Battle of Tali-Ihantala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Soviet attack was concentrated on the area east of the city of Viipuri (Vyborg), from the southern village of Tali to north towards Ihantala.
		At the same time, the Soviet 59th Army attacked across the islands of the Bay of Viipuri from July 4th on, but the attack to the mainland was thrown back to the sea by the German 122nd Division of the V AK on July 10th.
		Further defensive victories were achieved at the Bay of Viipuri, on the northeast side of Lake Ladoga and in Ilomantsi the Soviet contingent was besieged.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Tali-Ihantala (1791 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Vyborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The evacuees from Finnish Karelia came to be a vociferous political force, and their wish to return to their homes was an important incentive when Finland sought support from Germany against the Soviet threat; a support that resulted in Finland and Germany ending up on the same side in World War II.
		About 70% of the evacuees from Finnish Karelia returned after the re-conquest to rebuild their looted homes, but were again evacuated after the Red Army's Fourth strategic offensive, timed with the Battle of Normandy.
		Sprawling along the heights adjacent to the Gulf of Finland is Mon Repos, one of the most spacious English parks in Eastern Europe.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Vyborg (1000 words)

	Gulf of Viipuri - TheBestLinks.com - Gulf of Finland, Vyborg, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gulf of Viipuri - TheBestLinks.com - Gulf of Finland, Vyborg,...
		The Gulf of Viipuri or Gulf of Vyborg is a deep inlet running northeastward near the eastern end of Gulf of Finland.
		The city of Viipuri/Vyborg is located near the head of the gulf.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Gulf_of_Viipuri.html (81 words)

	Martti Ahtisaari
		Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari was born in Viipuri 1937.
		He also directed UN approach to Iraq in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War but his moderate stance is believed to have made him lose US support in the election of UN secretary-general.
		Ahtisaari's presidential campaign begun when he was still in the council about the war in Bosnia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Martti_Ahtisaari.html (481 words)

	Vyborg - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Vyborg (in Finnish, Viipuri; in Swedish, Viborg), seaport, north-western Russia, northern Europe.
		Finland, Gulf of, arm of the Baltic Sea, north central Europe, extending east for about 400 km (250 mi) between Finland on the north and Estonia and...
		Also during the autumn of 1939, the Soviet government demanded of Finland that it cede territory on the Karelian Isthmus north-east of Leningrad and...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Vyborg&pg=1&grp=art (168 words)

	Search Results for "Viipuri"
		...European Russia, NW of St. Petersburg and near the Finnish border, on Vyborg Bay and the Gulf of Finland.
		Situated between the Gulf of Finland in the west and Lake Ladoga in the east, it...
		It borders on the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden in the west, on Norway...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Viipuri (197 words)

	Search Results for "Vyborg"
		...Russia northwest of St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland near the Finnish border.
		...peace, negotiated at Moscow, ceding to the USSR the Karelian Isthmus, the city of Viipuri (Vyborg), a naval base at Hango, and territories totaling 16,173 square...
		Saint Petersburg and Vyborg (Viipuri) are its chief cities.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Vyborg (255 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The objective was to occupy Viipuri in four days, Helsinki in two weeks and the whole country by the end of December.
		In the beginning of March, battles were fought near the Gulf of Viipuri.
		Finland lost the entire Karelian Isthmus with the city of Viipuri, the areas west and north of Lake Lagoda, land in the Salla sector in northeastern Finland, the Rybachiy Peninsula and the outer islands of the Gulf of Finland.
	www.uta.fi /~er71261/talvisota1.txt (2567 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - New Russian oil terminal would double petroleum transport in Gulf of Finland
		The planned oil terminal would double the amount of oil being transported in the eastern Gulf of Finland, as the annual capacity of the new oil terminal would be about the same as that of the fist stage of the nearby Primorsk terminal -- nearly 10 mm tons.
		News of the beginning of the construction work on the terminal and its tight schedule came as a complete surprise to Finnish environment officials; it was only in June that it was revealed that there were any plans for an oil terminal in Vysotsk.
		"Everything that increases the transport of oil and hazardous materials in the Gulf of Finland is a cause for concern", she says.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cne23499.htm (971 words)

	SuddenLip: Vyborg
		Formerly (1919–40) Viipuri, city, Leningrad oblast (province), northwestern Russia.
		The city stands at the head of Vyborg Bay of the Gulf of Finland, 70 miles (113 km) northwest of St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad).
		First settled in the 12th century, Vyborg was built as a fortress in 1293 by the Swedes after they had captured Karelia.
	suddenlip.blogspot.com /2004/03/vyborg.html (82 words)

	Project on Defense Alternatives - Defensive Military Structures in Action: Historical Examples
		The war commenced with the Red Air Force attacking Helsinki and Viipuri, while amphibious assaults were attempted along the southern coast.
		Between the Vuoksi and the Gulf of Finland were broad stretches of lake and swamp.
		The most salient factor in the Gulf War was a disparity in the capabilities of the combatants far more pronounced than that found even in Arab-Israeli conflicts.
	www.comw.org /pda/webbtl.htm (5588 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Vyborg
		Situated between the Gulf of Finland in the west and Lake Ladoga in the east, it is 25 to 70 mi (40-113 km) wide and 90 mi (145 km) long.
		It is an important railroad junction on the line running from St. Petersburg to Helsinki and a transportation center for goods heading toward both Asia and Europe.
		It borders on the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden in the west, on Norway in the north, on Russia in the east, and on the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea in
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Vyborg (515 words)

	Furious Front Across Finland
		And here Meretskov’s 7th Army would smash through the Finns’ 90 mile Mannerheim Line, seize Viipuri, Finland’s second largest city, and then march on to the capital Helsinki, halfway towards the western end of the Gulf of Finland.
		Then, at the stroke of 8 o’clock on the Karelian Isthmus, the air suddenly was filled with the whistle of shells, the echoes of their bursts, the muffled boom of their distant artillery pieces.
		From Kronstadt, the Russian sea fortification on the Gulf of Finland, came the muted additional roar of its great fortress guns.
	www.sixthscalebattle.com /custom4.html (2154 words)

	Street Children - Finland
		map] is located in N Europe and is bordered by the Gulf of Bothnia and Sweden in (W), by Norway (N), by Russia (E), and by the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea (S).
		For example, 13-year old Andrei and 14-year-old Vova are on the street because of their parents' alcoholism, and many of these street children are driven to prostitution because of drug addiction, because they are hungry, or just because they want a warm place to spend the night.
		The number of homeless people in Finland was cut in half after 10 years.[9] However, the major problem with State programs is that children often reject the alternative assistance offered by the State.
	gvnet.com /streetchildren/Finland.htm (659 words)

	Finnish Air Force in World War II
		March 4th to 10th Blenheims made attacks on the advancing enemy troops over the frozen Gulf of Viipuri.
		BL-133 was attacked after a such mission by enemy fighters and was shot down at Ylämaa on March 10th.
		BL-144 and BL-122 were both shot down by fighters at Gulf of Viipuri on 7 March 1940.
	www.network54.com /Forum/46825/message/1083215296/BL-133 (149 words)

	'Fire and Ice', PBS show on Russo-Finnish war - Page 5 - Military Photos
		There were secondary defensive positions all the way to Viipuri, not as much built but they were there.
		The northern troops were not engaged with any serious action in spring 1940, as the Soviet attacks had been halted and they had dug in in defense.
		The major soviet approach to Viipuri happened at the crossing of the Gulf of Viipuri, which the Finns repelled.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=73578&page=5 (3436 words)

	MANNERHEIM - Commander-in-Chief - The Winter War
		The Finns withdrew slowly on the Isthmus to new defence lines, first to the intermediate position, then to the rear position.
		In early March, battles were fought on the western bank of the Gulf of Viipuri and in the neighbourhood of the city itself.
		The red army had suffered substantial losses – altogether 100,000 casualties during the Winter War – and had difficulties in organizing their maintenance and supply, but, on the other hand, the resistance of the Finns too, began to give way, as reinforcements were hard to come by.
	www.mannerheim.fi /10_ylip/e_talvis.htm (371 words)

	TheCivilGuardOfFinlandPart2
		Only in a few cases in which more troops were needed desperately at the frontline and new conscripts from training centers could not be sent fast enough, saw use of units hastily created from Sk members.
		The best known examples of these rare cases included Sk battalion formed from young members of Viipuri Suojeluskunta, which served as reserves in the Summa sector of the Mannerheim line in February of 1940, and 7 Sk battalions created by Kymenlaakso Sk district from its members left on the home front.
		During a phase of the Winter War, Soviets threatened to land at the Kotka coastal sector from the frozen Finnish Gulf of the Baltic Sea.
	www.mosinnagant.net /finland/TheCivilGuardOfFinlandPart2.asp (4405 words)

	Riitta A. Minkkinen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She was born in Koivisto, Finland and her family lived on the island of Tiuri (now Russia) on the Gulf of Finland, where her grandparents once hosted Czar Nicholas II's entourage for afternoon tea.
		He was in the Finnish Cavalry Regiment and was convalescing in a military hospital in Viipuri.
		She was the night nurse assigned to his ward.
	www.andovertownsman.com /news/20031120/OB_001.html (292 words)

	Finland - WORLD WAR II, 1939-45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In particular, the Soviets sought a base on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, from which they could block the Gulf of Finland from hostile naval forces.
		In the negotiations, the main Soviet demand was that the Finns cede small parcels of territory, including a naval base on the Gulf of Finland that the Soviets wanted to help them protect Leningrad.
		In exchange, the Soviets offered to cede to Finland about 8,800 square kilometers of Karelia along the Finnish border, or about twice the amount of land to be ceded by Finland.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-4580.html (1718 words)

	The Soviet Air Forces in the Winter War
		At the start of the Winter War, the Soviet Air Forces had probably nearly 800 planes ready to be used against Finland.
		The fighters made more often trips across the Gulf of Finland to escort bombers to targets in southern Finland, and more of the newer DB-3M type bomber were encountered, which were faster and carried a bigger load than the SB-2.
		One statistic of the damages suffered in the Home front, made after the war (not including the damages in Viipuri) gives a number of 157 stone buildings and 1 764 wooden buildings destroyed and 696 stone buildings and 4 137 wooden buildings damaged.
	www.winterwar.com /forces/SAF.htm (1888 words)

	Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Soviets begin to occupy the islands in the Gulf of Finland.
		The Finns decide that they must give in to the Soviet demands but their note to that effect is not sent immediately because of British and French reactions to the news.
		Nearer the landing area at Lingayen Gulf there are renewed efforts by US 1st Corps in the direction of Baguio and north along the coast.
	forums.ubi.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/9 (8933 words)

	FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: ARTILLERY PART I
		The German training plan for Prussian Jäger Battalion 27 also proved wise in advance: Among training guns issued to this unit of volunteered Finns seeking independence for their country were also two 87 K/95 guns and during the Civil War this experience proved very useful.
		During Winter War both the guns and their ammunition were already in very bad shape and the amount of fuses, which could be used with their ammunition was very small.
		Because of mistake in ammunition supply from those three artillery batteries taking part to Viipuri Gulf battles only one had fuses, this made the other two batteries to participate only as spectators and lead loosing two of the guns.
	www.jaegerplatoon.net /ARTILLERY1.htm (4410 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		On October 5, the day Latvia signed its treaty, the Soviet government extended its diplomatic offensive to the north with a demand that Finland send plenipotentiaries to Moscow to negotiate political questions raised by the outbreak of the war.
		When the negotiations began on October 12, the Russians demanded a mutual assistance pact, a 30-year lease on a base at Hango (Hanko), several islands in the Gulf of Finland, the western half of the Rybachi Peninsula, and a broad strip of Finnish territory on the Karelian Isthmus.
		Finland was forced to cede the Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri and a strip of territory northeast of Lake Ladoga, the islands in the Gulf of Finland, the western half of the Rybachi Peninsula, and territory around Salla (now Kuolayarvi) and Kuusamo.
	gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_3.html (5832 words)

	GeoNative - Ingria
		Historically Ingria comprises the area between the Gulf of Finland, the basin of the Neva (Estonia) and Lake Ladoga.
		In 1710 it was designated as the Province of St. Petersburg and in 1927 as Leningrad Province.
		We have several tables here: first, some places around Saint Petersburg; then islands in the Gulf of Finlandiako Golkoko; towns of the Ingrian Finns (below).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/ingria.html (882 words)

	Finland travel guide
		With an area of 338,000 square kilometers, Finland is the seventh largest country in Europe, located between Sweden and Russia.
		The Gulf of Finland separates southern Finland from Estonia and in the north Norway isolates Finland from the Barents Sea.
		Boreal forest cover two-thirds of Finland, one third of the country lies north of the Arctic Circle.
	www.world66.com /europe/finland (564 words)

	VIBORG (Finnish Viipuri) - Online Information article about VIBORG (Finnish Viipuri)
		Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
		Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat.
		Bay of Viborg in the Gulf of Finland, at the mouth of the Saima See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VIBORG_Finnish_Viipuri_.html (595 words)

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