• The Battle of Vyborg was a significant battle during the Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus, part of the Continuation War. The battle took place...
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  • Battle of Vyborg Bay (1940), last battle of the Winter War Battle of Vyborg (1941), battle of World War II : Finns retake the city. Battle of Vyborg Bay...
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    Vyborg Governorate was renamed the Finland Governorate. One of the largest naval battles in history, the Battle of Vyborg Bay, was fought in Vyborg Bay...
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    The Battle of Vyborg Bay (Finnish: Viipurinlahden taistelu) was fought in the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War (1941–1944). The Soviet offensive against...
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    The Battle of Tali–Ihantala (June 25 to July 9, 1944) was part of the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War (1941–1944), which occurred during World War II...
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    East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet forces captured East Karelia and Vyborg/Viipuri. After that...
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    1944) Battle of Tannenberg Line Operation Margarethe Crimean Offensive (1944) Kerch-Eltigen Operation Shyaulyay Offensive Battle of Someri Vyborg–Petrozavodsk...
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    vital port of Vyborg, the town of Porlampi was occupied by the Soviets in March 1940 following the Battle of Summa. Following the end of the Winter War...
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    Karl Lennart Oesch (category Grand Crosses of the Order of the Cross of Liberty)
    nerve from the intensity of the combat. The Battle of Vyborg Bay saw both sides suffer significant losses, but by the evening of March 5 the Soviet 173rd...
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  • This is the order of battle for the Leningrad Strategic Defensive covering the period 10 July to 30 September 1941. The Northern Front was active from...
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  • 178th Rifle Division (category Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II)
    in Leningrad Front. During the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive it took part in the final drive toward Vyborg as part of 23rd Army, and after this city was...
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    marked the end of the Winter War. Later, in the summer of 1944, the Soviet Union reconquered the southern part of the isthmus in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk...
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  • IV Corps (Continuation War) (category Military units and formations of Finland in World War II)
    spearhead of the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive. Elements of the corps fought in the decisive Battle of Tali-Ihantala at the end of the war. Commanded...
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    Kirov (Murmansk) Railway. The Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive in June and August 1944 drove the Finns from most of the territories that they had gained...
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  • Continuation War (part of the Eastern Front) Germany's co-belligerent Finland conquered Vyborg essentially without a fight in August 1941.[citation needed]...
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  • following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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  • Säkkijärven polkka (category Music of Finland)
    Thus began the battle of the radio waves. The broadcast[which?] continued for three days until another car was sent from Aunus to Vyborg. In the meantime...
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    from the Bay of Vyborg to the westernmost point of Lake Ladoga, Pekonlahti. If the Karelian Isthmus is defined as the entire territory of present-day Saint...
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    Nikolai Kryuchkov (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour)
    Bluest of Seas (1936) The Return of Maxim (1937) The Vyborg Side (1939) Salavat Yulayev (1941) They Met in Moscow (1941) In the Rear of the Enemy (1941) In...
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    Army launched a Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive against the Finnish lines on 9 June 1944 (coordinated with the Western Allied Invasion of Normandy). Three...
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    BT-42 (category World War II military equipment of Finland)
    defence of Vyborg. In one encounter, a Finnish BT-42 hit a Soviet T-34 eighteen times, failing even to immobilize the enemy vehicle. During this battle a BT-42...
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    surges of water and floods. The northern coast of the gulf is high and winding, with abundant small bays and skerries, but only a few large bays (Vyborg) and...
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    Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This article lists all the battles that...
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    the Bay of Vyborg and the Vuoksi River. The siege was also known as the Leningrad Blockade and the 900-Day Siege. In his analysis of the siege of Leningrad...
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  • 6th Division (Continuation War) (category Divisions of Finland)
    was moved to the Karelian Isthmus following the start of the 1944 Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive. Following the Moscow armistice, the division also...
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    Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast (category Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea)
    area of the modern Vyborgsky District to Russia. In the course of Peter's second administrative reform, the area became a part of Vyborg Province of St...
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    168th Rifle Division (category Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II)
    District, based on a cadre from the 14th Rifle Division. Its order of battle (as of 1941) was as follows: 260th Rifle Regiment 402nd Rifle Regiment 462nd...
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    Leonid Govorov (category Candidates of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
    November 1941 during the Battle of Moscow. He commanded the Leningrad Front from April 1942 to the end of the war. He reached the rank of Marshal of the Soviet...
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  • 29 June – 19 September 1941 Vyborg-Keksholm defensive 29 June – 23 September 1941 Kestenga defensive 1 July – 10 October 1941 Defensives on the Petrozavodsk...
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  • V Corps (Continuation War) (category Military units and formations of Finland in World War II)
    of the war. Following the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive, the corps was moved to the Karelian Isthmus, where it fought in the Battle of Vyborg Bay...
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