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    Vyborg Library (Finnish: Viipurin kaupunginkirjasto) is a library in Vyborg, Russia, built during the time of Finnish sovereignty (1918 to 1940-44), before...
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    Vyborg (/ˈviːbɔːrɡ/; Russian: Выборг, IPA: [ˈvɨbərk]; Finnish: Viipuri, IPA: [ˈʋiːpuri]; Swedish: Viborg, IPA: [ˈvǐːbɔrj] ) is a town and the administrative...
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    exactly why the underground libraries began. Another problem was the low level of literacy of the masses. Vyborg Library, designed by Alvar Aalto, was...
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    1933 design for the model 60 stool, which was intended for use in the Vyborg Library. Aalto notoriously tested the durability of his design by repeatedly...
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    statue was lost in the Winter War. The statue was 1993–2009 inside Vyborg Library Tarkiainen, Kari (2010). Ruotsin itämaa. Helsinki: Svenska litteratursällskapet...
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  • Langtry-Langton Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, designed by Nils Einar Ericsson Vyborg Library, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands...
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    his most important early designs — designed at the same time as the Vyborg Library. Aalto and his wife Aino designed all of the sanatorium's furniture...
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    birch boards in a vertical arrangement. His Vyborg Library, built in what was then Viipuri (it became Vyborg after Soviet annexation in 1944), is acclaimed...
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  • often held in key modernist buildings, as for instance at Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library (2003 ISC/T seminar), Brinkman and Leendert van der Vlugt's Van Nelle...
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    alteration of Alvar Aalto’s buildings, the longest-lasting task being the Vyborg Library restoration project (1927–35). Elissa Aalto also played a sizeable role...
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    Turku (1928), Muuramäki Church (1929) and the early version of the Vyborg Library (1927–1935) before Aalto greatly modified his design in line with the...
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    (Tverdysh, Slottsholmen) outside Vyborg, Russia. The park lies along the shoreline of the Zashchitnaya inlet of Vyborg Bay and occupies about 180 hectares...
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    Vyborg town wall. Like Alvar Aalto's famous Vyborg Library, it is another remarkable piece of Finnish-era modern architecture in Vyborg. The Vyborg Art...
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    previously involved in the conservation of the modernist monument, the Vyborg Library. Tatiana Tsareva, a Russian expert, was responsible for documentary...
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  • 'The Vyborg Side (Russian: Выборгская сторона) is the traditional name of the northern and northeastern part of Saint Petersburg, Russia on the right-hand...
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  • (2016), she demonstrates that Alvar Aalto's parti for his Viipuri (Vyborg) Library was grounded in metaphors originating in embodied cognition, an idea...
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    library. Additional copies began to be deposited in other libraries in Turku, Jyväskylä, and Vyborg (later Oulu). In 1984, the obligation to deposit was expanded...
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    Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located by the Vyborg–Joensuu railroad 23 kilometres north of Vyborg. The railway station was opened in 1892. It was...
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    Lappeenranta and from Parikkala to Onkamo where built on the 1960s. The Vyborg railway station also serves a number of other railroads. At Antrea a 39-kilometre...
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    second attempt by the Russians to capture the fortress port of Viborg (today Vyborg), near the modern border between Russia and Finland, after a failed attempt...
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    centre of the Central library named after A.Aalto (the architectural monument of national value); 4, Suvorova str., Vyborg. Vyborg Library "Bethlehem Star[citation...
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    of strengthening the defenses. The Swedish war plan was to first capture Vyborg and then advance further towards Saint Petersburg. The objective of these...
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    a part of Vyborg Province, and in 1744, Vyborg Governorate with the seat in Vyborg was established. In 1783, it was transformed into Vyborg Viceroyalty...
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    Syssstroy, and the paper mill and the plant producing oil platforms in Vyborg, and the Tikhvin industrial site in Tikhvin. The main agricultural specializations...
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    to capture Murmansk or to cut the Kirov (Murmansk) Railway. The Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive in June and August 1944 drove the Finns from most...
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    Corps occurred in eastern Finland in Vyborg and Luumäki and in the western part of the country in Kiikka. In Vyborg, the second largest city in Finland...
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    "City Information Center". "Скульптура Выборга" [Sculpture of Vyborg]. Выборга (Vyborg). "Кладбище Коммунаров" [Cemetery of Communards (5th St. Bastion)]...
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    end of 1917. In 1812, Alexander I incorporated the Russian province of Vyborg into the Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1854, Finland became involved in Russia's...
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    Aleksandra Henriksson. He graduated as an ylioppilas in 1912 from a lyceum in Vyborg after which he studied civil engineering for four terms at the Helsinki...
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    Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (category Writers from Vyborg)
    December 1737, in Strasbourg – 18 November [O.S. 6] 1820, in Monrepos north of Vyborg) was a German poet of the Enlightenment. He served as President of the St...
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