The Battle of Viipuri was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought 24–29 April between the Finnish Whites and the Finnish Reds in Viipuri. Together with...
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place during and after the Battle of Viipuri as the White Guards captured the city from the Red Guards. At least half of the victims were Russian soldiers...
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The Battle of Vyborg Bay or Battle of Viipuri Bay (2–13 March 1940) was the culmination of the Soviet Union's second offensive and the last battle in the...
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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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not anything compared with the one of World War I. The battle ended in late April, as the Whites attacked Viipuri from further east and the Reds pulled...
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Finnish Civil War (redirect from Civil War of Finland)
April. The decisive engagements were the Battles of Tampere and Viipuri, won by the Whites, and the Battles of Helsinki and Lahti, won by German troops...
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Reds in Lahti, Finland. Together with the Battle of Viipuri, from 24 to 29 April, it was the last major battle of the war. The German unit Detachment Brandenstein...
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Battle of Hämeenlinna (White victory) Battle of Viipuri (White victory) Battle of Hauho [fi] (Red victory) Battle of Syrjäntaka (Red victory) Battle of...
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the north-west of the Kemmelberg in France, ending the Battle of the Lys and the second phase of the Spring Offensive. Battle of Viipuri – The White Guards...
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Hjalmar Siilasvuo (category Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Liberty)
Siilasvuo saw action as a company commander in the Battles of Tampere and Viipuri. Siilasvuo was given command of a battalion in late 1918. In 1920, he was promoted...
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Aksel Airo (category Members of the Parliament of Finland (1958–1962))
served in the artillery on the White side, taking part in battles near Viipuri. At the end of the war he was a lieutenant. Afterwards he was trained as...
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from Viipuri. On 24 August the Finnish 8th Division crossed Viipuri Bay and cut the coastal route from Viipuri. Finnish forces captured Viipuri on 29...
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Vyborg Bay (redirect from Gulf of Viipuri)
the scene of one of the largest naval battles in history, the Battle of Vyborg Bay, with a total of 498 Russian and Swedish ships. The end of the bay is...
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The Battle of Tienhaara was a part of Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union fought north of Viipuri on June 22, 1944, after the Red Army...
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village of Summa (now Sokolinskoe) along the main road leading from Leningrad to Viipuri. The village of Summa was a gateway to the city of Viipuri. The...
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Harald Öhquist (category Military personnel from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland))
Guard battalion in the battle of Viipuri. In 1930, he was promoted as Major General, and three years later he was the Commander of the Army on the Karelian...
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Edvard Karvonen (category People of the Finnish Civil War (White side))
soldier. Karvonen was born in Eastern Karelia. He took part in the Battle of Viipuri as a 13-year-old. After the civil war, he took part in the Heimosodat...
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Taavetti Laatikainen (category Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Liberty)
civil war on the side of the Finnish Whites. He saw action in the Battle of Kämärä on 27 January 1918 and the Battle of Viipuri that was fought between...
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Offensive Battle of Tali-Ihantala Battle of the Bay of Viipuri: June–July 1944 Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive Battle of Radzymin (1944) Warsaw Uprising Battle of Jaktorów...
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Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive (redirect from Battle of Valkeasaari)
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, however...
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Arne Halonen (category Members of the Socialist Party of America)
April after the Battle of Viipuri. Halonen spent few weeks at a prison camp, but was soon released. In fall 1918, he entered the University of Helsinki. In...
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Shoot on the Spot Declaration (category Russian Civil War prisoner of war massacres)
civilians in the aftermath of the Battle of Viipuri and even one White officer of Polish origin in the Battle of Tampere. Regardless of its legality, the legality...
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offensive was crowned when the city of Viipuri (Russian: Vyborg) was captured by the Soviets on June 20 after only a short battle. Despite the Red Army's great...
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from Viipuri. On 24 August the Finnish 8th Division crossed Viipuri Bay and cut the coastal route from Viipuri. Finnish forces captured Viipuri on 29...
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Finnish Civil War prison camps (category Prisoner-of-war camps)
Around 10,000 more prisoners were taken by the Whites after the major Battle of Viipuri. Finally, as the war ended on 15 May, around 80,000 Reds were held...
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Lake Näykkijärvi, just to the southeast of Viipuri, the second largest town in Finland. Also, the 3rd Battalion of the 67th Infantry Regiment that was on...
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Simo Häyhä (category Military personnel from Viipuri Province (Grand Duchy of Finland))
Kiiskinen hamlet of the Rautjärvi municipality in the Viipuri Province of southern Finland, near the border with Russia. He was the seventh of eight children...
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numerous and offered fiercer resistance. The former objective of reaching Viipuri on the Gulf side of the Karelian Isthmus became a secondary priority. The attack...
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Continuation War (redirect from Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia)
Red Army reached the third line of defence, the Viipuri–Kuparsaari–Taipale line (VKT line), and the decisive Battle of Tali-Ihantala began, which has been...
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