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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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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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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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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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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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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Monrepos Park (redirect from Mon Repos (Vyborg))
(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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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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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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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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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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Siege of Viborg (1710) (redirect from Second Siege of Vyborg)
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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Legal deposit (redirect from Deposit library)
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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Viipuri–Joensuu railroad (redirect from Vyborg-Joensuu railroad)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1923. In his name in 1934 in Vyborg, a city library was built to the designs of architect Alvar Aalto. In 1924 in Vyborg a monument was set to the married...
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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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