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	Vyborg
		The castle of Vyborg was founded during the third Swedish crusade in 1293.
		After Finland was conquerd by Russia in 1808, Vyborg was incorporated in the grand duchy of Finland in 1812 and became again the center of administration for the eastern part of the country.
		During the Finnish Civil War Vyborg was in the hands of the reds, until it was captured by the whites on 29 April 1918.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vi/Viipuri.html (180 words)

	VIBORG SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Vyborg Shipyard JSC has almost 30-years’ experience in building and modernization of platforms of different type and purpose, that allowed it to build the object in maximum short terms.
		During Exhibition the Vyborg Shipyard stand was visited by Russian Federation Minister of Transport, who spoke to the management of the shipyard and interested in current projects and perspectives of future development of the shipyard.
		Vyborg Shipyard is specialized in building of technical facilities for offshore field exploration, including semi-submersibles and jack-ups, topside structures of stationary production installations as well as supply and standby vessels for servicing drilling operations offshore.
	www.vyborgshipyard.ru /eng/news.php (5226 words)

	Small Towns of Russia > Small Towns > Vyborg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Vyborg was naturally affected by the revolutionary events of 1917 as it happened to be very close to the "Cradle of the Revolution", Petrograd.
		Vyborg was designated to be one of 15 cities which had to be restored with the first priority.
		The role of Vyborg as a railway and a sea port terminal, and as a cultural and tourist center, increased.
	www.towns.ru /towns/viborg_en.html (3120 words)

	AllRefer.com - Vyborg (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Vyborg was a trading point for Novgorod in the 12th cent.
		Vyborg became a port for the Hanseatic League and was chartered in the 15th cent.
		Vyborg remained Finnish until 1940, when it was occupied by the Soviet Union.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Vyborg.html (301 words)

	Vyborg > Main
		In 1293 the governor of Sweden Torgils Knutsson with the blessing of the Pope undertook the third crusade to Southern Karelia.
		Vyborg castle became one of the most powerful fortresses in Ruotsi.
		From that time Vyborg was losing its trading importance and its population decreased.
	www.nortfort.ru /vyborg/index_e.html (682 words)

	A R T M a r g i n s
		The tours were the climax of the long-lasting collaboration of Liisa and her colleagues with the young Vyborg residents to create a narrative scenario of Vyborg out of the discussions and actions, which Liisa had been initiating in the city for the past three years.
		Therefore, according to Roberts' initial plan, the result of the actions in Vyborg was to be a film as the best realization of her concept of the time of an artwork, which implied simultaneity of event and its fixation that a certain mode of filmmaking carries out.
		In the contemporary context of Vyborg, this sentiment is no longer effective, nevertheless it does not cease to exist and is present in the collective memory of Finns, regularly undertaking their sentimental trip across the border to revisit their lost territory and the memories.
	www.artmargins.com /content/feature/kopenkina.html (2656 words)

	Vyborg
		The castle was blocking a major trade route between the Russian merchant city of Novgorod and the Baltic Sea, trough the Ladoga Lake via the Vuoksa River and the Russian fortress Karela (modern-day town of Priozersk).
		The main civil landmark of Vyborg and the surrounding area is the "Monrepo" estate.
		The estate was founded by the military commandant of Vyborg, but was soon acquired by the governor of the province, who used it for hosting spectacular feasts.
	www.saint-petersburg.com /vyborg (563 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Vyborg struggle was represented by some on the left as an archetypal example of a heroic workers\rquote struggle that was eventually betrayed by a spineless leadership.
		Three well-known and influential deputies of the Vyborg municipal assembly, Sergei Rubinovich, a local businessman who was the chair of the assembly, Vitalii Kiryakov and A. Vantorin were i nvited by the strike committee to attend a conference of the labour collective.
		Kiryakov (as a deputy of the municipal assembly) sent a letter to the Vyborg city public prosecutor demanding an investigation of the provocation of mass disorder by officials of the administration and to inform the municipal assembly of the results of the investig ation.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /russia/vyborg.doc (7027 words)

	St. Petersburg, Russia : Side Trips : Vyborg \| Frommers.com
		Vyborg's architecture reflects its history, which tossed it back and forth among Swedes, Russians, Finns, and Karelians native to the region.
		Vyborg is on the main highway between St. Petersburg and Finland, which can get clogged on Russian holiday weekends and on which traffic slows down considerably during the blustery winter months.
		Vyborg Castle, on a rocky island in the center of town, was the Swedes' first major project here, built in the 1290s.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/stpetersburgrussia/3283020881.html (919 words)

	The sea commercial port of Vyborg: Pages of history
		The port of Vyborg was founded in 1293 on the crossroads of waterways between Finnish Gulf and navigable system of the Saimaa lakes and the Vuoksa river-close to a trading settlement located on the coast of a convenient bay at the foot of medieval castle.
		In 1527 Vyborg was officially declared as "the shipyard city" which had a right to accept foreign vessels.
		The port in Vyborg was long since divided on external and internal.
	www.port.vyborg.ru /eng/index.html (532 words)

	Sea fortifications of Vyborg Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Before that, from the end of XIII centure till the beginning of XVIII century Vyborg was Swedish fortress on the Western coast of the Baltic Sea.
		Position's selection (with moving out of shore's line, as a rule, to main line of resistance) was caused by a long-range ability of the guns (nearly 0.3 km) and by necessity to resist the galley fleet.
		When Finland joined Russian empire Vyborg reserved the meaning of the important Baltic fortress though to modernize this fortress waspaid very little attention till the middle of XIX century.
	spb.org.ru /seacastles/main_e.htm (432 words)

	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 Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland.
		On August 29, 1941, Vyborg was recaptured by Finnish troops and, soon after, the Government of Finland formally annexed it along with the other areas lost in the Moscow Peace Treaty.
		Vyborg's most prominent landmark is the Swedish built castle, started in the 13th century and extensively reconstructed in 1891–1894.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vyborg (1187 words)

	Vyborg Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Until 1939, Vyborg (situated 50 km from Lappeenranta) was part of Finland being the second largest city in the country.
		From the Middle Ages to the Second World War Vyborg had been in one way or another connected with Finland (our country has been both under Swedish and Russian rule) but after the Winter War in the peace of Moscow on 13th March 1940 the town without any inhabitants was ceded to the Soviet Union.
		The Vyborg Collection in the South Karelian Museum in the historical Fortress in Lappeenranta is worth visiting for example before a boat trip to the Vyborg of today.
	www.aurora.komvux.norrkoping.se /etel/worthsee/14/Vyborg.htm (332 words)

	Mariinsky.ru - Opera - Premiere at Vyborg Castle
		In current XV of century Vyborg became the center of trade of an internal part of the Finnish bay and of an entrance gateway in the Karelian regions arranged on shores of the Ladoga lake.
		Simultaneously of Vyborg served a frontier fortress for Swedish kingdom, that required constant maintenance of its defensive capability.
		Modern exterior the Vyborg castle had gained at the end of XIXth century, after the reconstruction effected by the Russian military department.
	www.mariinsky.ru /en/opera/vyborg_godunov (365 words)

	NMR: School1
		Vyborg Gymnasium was the first gymnasium in Vyborg.
		The school occupies the buildings of what was originally a Finnish school (prior to W.W.II the land around Vyborg, stretching west to today's border between the two countries, was part of Finland).
		What makes the Vyborg Gymnasium unique is its reliance on traditional values and the humanities, while seeking new ways to address tomorrow's issues.
	www.new-millennium-ride.org /scool23.htm (620 words)

	Vyborg - not so well known old hanseatic town (history, old photos and my photos) - SkyscraperCity
		Vyborg is a bit like Kaliningrad: once rich and beautiful hanseatic town, but a town which has seen it's best days.
		Vyborg's popularity as a tourist destination among Finish tourists has gone down radically since their pocket's were cleaned up systematically by robbers, handbags, cameras, etc were robbed coarsely and milisians weren't interested to do anything about it.
		After Finland was conquered by Russia in 1808, Vyborg was incorporated in the Grand Duchy of Finland (as Viipuri) in 1812 and became again the center of administration for the eastern part of the country.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=241477 (1718 words)

	The Vyborg Castle Museum
		Vyborg belongs to the oldest towns of Russia.
		The museum is located in the Vyborg Castle - the only castle in Russia designed in the European tradition.
		The six permanent exhibits of the museum cover different periods in the town and castle history and, also, feature the Karelian Isthmus nature and activities of both Russian and Finnish frontier guard and customs services.
	www.oblmuseums.spb.ru /eng/museums/01/info.html (299 words)

	Vyborg - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		THE VYBORG PULP AND PAPER MILL WAS TRANSFERRED TO ITS NEW OWNERS.
		Vyborg Mayor Faces Pressure From Locals, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
		VYBORG SHIP BUILDING WORKS BEGINS CONSTRUCTION OF THE LARGEST DRILLING PLATFORM.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vyborg.html (389 words)

	Vyborg and Rochensalm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Swedish forces in Vyborg Bay numbered 400 vessels, 3,000 guns and 40,000 seamen and soldiers, but only a strong northeast wind would allow them to break through the blockade.
		Nassau-Ziegen reached Vyborg Bay on 21 June and attacked the Swedes at Bjorke Sound with the 89 vessels under his command.
		Intoxicated by the victory at Vyborg, Prince Nassau-Ziegen rashly attacked a strong Swedish position from the southwest.
	www.neva.ru /EXPO96/book/chap5-4.html (861 words)

	Global Gayz...Vyborg, Russia
		Once the second largest city in Finland, Vyborg was taken away by Russia along with a big chunk of the surrounding wilderness of Karelia.
		Near the captain's bridge, the elegant and cozy 'Viipuri Kabinetti' (Vyborg Cabin) was a sitting room with wood veneered walls, scarlet crushed velvet seats and burgundy tablecloths.
		The tattered community of Vyborg is typical of many rural Russian cities rendered sallow and faltering by the failures of that regime.
	www.globalgayz.com /vyborg.html (1869 words)

	Vyborg Film Festival 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		On a personal level, coming to Vyborg was not easy for Kirsi, head of the International Department of Finnish Film Foundation: her grand father was buried in Vyborg.
		However, speaking from a professional and international point of view, she believes that 'it is very important for the Finns that people in Vyborg were able to see recent titles from Finland'.
		Kirsi also revealed that Finnish directors are looking at Vyborg as a location for future film projects, as well as using neighbouring Estonia for filming.
	www.filmfestivals.com /vyborg/vynew15.htm (197 words)

	Search Results for "Vyborg"
		...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...
		...period of my life I lived another and braved the ice of winter and the summer flies in Vyborg while across my adopted country of the past, winds of the revolution...
		Saint Petersburg and Vyborg (Viipuri) are its chief cities.
	bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Vyborg (255 words)

	Vyborg News
		Rescuers found the bodies of four people in the rubble of an apartment building that partially collapsed in the Russian city of Vyborg, bringing the death toll to seven, officials said Wednesday.
		Part of an apartment building collapsed Monday in the northwestern Russian city of Vyborg, injuring several residents and leaving at least one person trapped beneath the rubble, emergency officials said.
		At the opening ceremony in Vyborg the celebrations were so intense that a fire broke out in a tower of the city's castle.
	www.topix.net /ru/vyborg (677 words)

	The Morning News - Letters from Russia: Ordeals in Vyborg by Veronica Khokhlova
		And the attitude of Vladislav Krasnoperov, a Vyborg prosecutor quoted at the end of the story, further defies any cozy stereotypes of the famed Russian hospitality: “We have asked Finnish travel agencies to have security guards on buses, and we have received a categorical refusal.
		I’m not aware yet that Vyborg is really tiny; I’m not yet reminded of all those tiny, poor Ukrainian towns I’ve visited, where taxis seem to outnumber the native population; I’ve forgotten that too many taxis in a tiny town are somehow a sure sign that the town is famished.
		In Vyborg, the City Court shares the same entrance with the Tuberculosis Prevention Clinic and a footwear store; the court’s red plaque is stuck on the left from the door, the clinic’s green one on the right, and the windows on both sides are full of shoes.
	www.themorningnews.org /archives/personalities/letters_from_russia_ordeals_in_vyborg.php (2427 words)

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