Viipurin maalaiskunta | |
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Former municipality | |
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| Coordinates: 60°48′40″N28°43′47″E / 60.8112°N 28.7298°E | |
| Country | Finland |
| Established | 1869 |
| Ceded | 1944 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Viipurin maalaiskunta, Swedish : Viborgs landskommun, is a former municipality in Finland. It consisted of the rural districts around the city of Viipuri. It was ceded to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic after Finland's defeat in the Winter War and the Continuation War in the 1940s.
Ahokas, Alasommee, Alasäiniö, Haankylä (also Haka), Hapenensaari, Hämäläinen, Ihantala, Juustila (also Juustilanjoki), Jyrkilä, Järvelä, Kaipola, Karppila, Kaukola, Kiiskilä, Kilpeenjoki, Kilpeenjoki–Sydänmaa, Kilpeenjoki–Vakkila, Konkkala, Korpelanautio, Kurikkala, Kähäri, Kärki, Kärstilä, Lahti, Lavola, Leppälä, Lihaniemi, Lyykylänjärvi, Mannikkala, Mälkki, Naulasaari, Nikoskela, Nuoraa, Näätälä, Pakkainen, Parkaus, Perojoensuu, Pien-Merijoki, Pietilä, Pihkala, Piispansaari, Porkansaari, Rapattila, Rasalahti, Repola–Lyykylä, Repola–Tervajoki, Rikkola, Ryysylä, Rääsiälä, Saarela, Samola, Savolainen, Suur-Merijoki, Suurpero, Tali, Terävälä, Tikkala, Tirhiä, Uskila, Uusikartano, Vahvaniemi, Vatikivi, Ventelä, Ykspää, Ylivesi, Yläsommee, Yläsäiniö [1]
Old Finland is a name used for the areas that Russia gained from Sweden in the Great Northern War (1700–1721) and in the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743). Old Finland was joined to the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland as Viipuri Province in 1812.
The Aunus expedition was an attempt by Finnish volunteers to occupy parts of East Karelia in 1919, during the Russian Civil War. Aunus is the Finnish name for Olonets Karelia. This expedition was one of many Finnic "kinship wars" (heimosodat) fought against forces of Soviet Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the Russian Civil War.
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Timberjack is a manufacturer of forestry machinery for both cut-to-length and whole tree logging, and was a subsidiary of John Deere from 2000 to 2006.
Greater Finland is an irredentist and nationalist idea which aims for the territorial expansion of Finland. It is associated with Pan-Finnicism. The most common concept saw the country as defined by natural borders encompassing the territories inhabited by Finns and Karelians, ranging from the White Sea to Lake Onega and along the Svir River and Neva River—or, more modestly, the Sestra River—to the Gulf of Finland. Some extremist proponents also included the Kola Peninsula, Finnmark, Swedish Meänmaa, Ingria, and Estonia.
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Mir was a class of two self-propelled deep-submergence vehicles. The project was initially developed by the USSR Academy of Sciences along with Lazurit Central Design Bureau, and two vehicles were ordered from Finland. The Mir-1 and Mir-2, delivered in 1987, were designed and built by the Finnish company Rauma-Repola's Oceanics subsidiary. The project was carried out under the supervision of constructors and engineers of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology.
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Viipuri Cathedral, also known as Viborg Cathedral or Vyborg Cathedral, was a Lutheran church in Viipuri, present-day Russia; during its lifetime part of the Grand Duchy of Finland and later independent Finland. It was built in 1893. At first it was called the New Church and after 1908, when the Mikael Agricola statue was erected in front of the church, the Agricola Church. From 1925 to 1940 it was the cathedral of the Diocese of Viipuri. It was also called the New Cathedral in order to separate it from the medieval Old Viipuri Cathedral.
The Vyborg town wall was a defensive structure built around the town of Viborg. It was completed during the Swedish era in the 1470s and demolished mainly in the 1860s as Vyborg was a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland. Some minor parts of the wall are still preserved as well as two round towers.
Marja Anneli Risku-Repola is a Finnish speed skater. She competed in four events at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
The Vyborg (Viipuri) railway station built in 1913 was the second railway station built in Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland. The station, which had replaced Vyborg's first railway station was almost completely destroyed in 1941 during the Continuation War, and only the part that had acted as a cargo office remains. The present Vyborg railway station was built in 1953.
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