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Vyborg and operations
Large stores of supplies and munitions were transported from Vyborg and Saint Petersburg to the new base of operations.

Vyborg and after
Shortly after, the family – Bering, his wife Anna, and two young sons – moved out of St. Petersburg to live with Anna's family in Vyborg.
Lewenhaupt who arrived ten days after the defeat at Villmanstrand tried to organize joint operation by both land and naval forces towards Vyborg but Admiral Aron Sjöstierna who took von Rajalins positions made it clear that fleet would not be able to do it.
The county was named after the castle towns of Viborg () and Nyslott (, literally New Castle ), today located in the towns of Vyborg in Russia and Savonlinna in Finland.
Their leadership was not represented in the Duma after the Vyborg Manifesto fiasco and their numbers were reduced to about 100.
The BT-42 was retired soon after the Vyborg battles and was replaced in the role by German-made StuG IIIs.
Swedish coastal fleet was reinforced by 40 ships under Lieutenant-Colonel Carl Olof Cronstedt after the escape from Vyborg.
The German foreign ministry at Wilhelmstraße, on the other hand, wanted to exploit Finland's precarious situation after the fall of Vyborg to connect military aid to political concessions.
Both battalions retreated into Northern Norway after the Finnsh armistice in September 1944 after the Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive
Since 2003, after opening of Vyborg bypass E18 does not go through Vyborg, though previously it did.
The bases were also created in Reval ( Tallinn ) and in Vyborg after it was ceded from Sweden after the war of 1741-43.
After Dante leads a rescue attempt on Vyborg Castle he is captured but is rescued by Spatchcock and Flintlock it is thought she is killed by Sergeant Elena Kurakin but she survives and pledges her loyalty to Dimitri Romanov saying she hates the Makarovs after what they did to her father.
* Most ( but not all ) orthoclase crystals have plagioclase rims ( type Vyborgite, named after the city of Vyborg )

Vyborg and city
Charles's next seat was the castle of Vyborg, on Finland's eastern border, where he kept an independent court, taking no heed of Christopher and exercising his own foreign policy in relation to such powers in the region as the Hanseatic League, the Russian city of Novgorod and the Teutonic Knights in what are today Estonia and Latvia.
The city of Vyborg and the town of Priozersk are situated on the northwestern part of the isthmus.
* Vyborg, Viipuri or Viborg, a city on the Karelian Isthmus, Leningrad Region, Russia
* The city of Vyborg commence the 600-years anniversary of King Eric of Pomerania establishing the town's trading privileges in a Royal Charter.
Finland was forced to cede nearly all of Finnish Karelia ( with Finland's industrial center, including Vyborg / Viipuri, Finland's second largest city, Käkisalmi, Sortavala, and Suojärvi and the whole of Viipuri bay with its islands ; in total, nearly 10 % of the territory ), even though large parts were still held by Finland's army.
The city of Vyborg is located near the head of the gulf.
Now the Saimaa Canal bypasses the Vuoksi and enters the Gulf of Finland in the Bay of Vyborg near the medieval city of Vyborg.
It was now deemed sufficient if Finland ceded its industrial heartland, including its second largest city Viipuri ( Viborg, currently Vyborg ).
In the end, Finland managed to defend its independence but had to cede nearly 10 % of its territory, including one of its oldest cities, which was also its second largest city, Viipuri ( from 1944 Vyborg ), to the USSR.
In the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940, the Karelian Isthmus and the city of Vyborg were ceded to the Soviet Union, thus effectively splitting the canal in half and ending all traffic.

Vyborg and had
However, the Vuoksi still had a significant direct outflow connection to the Bay of Vyborg, possibly as late as in the 12th century AD.
A few treasures of silver adornments and medieval Arabian and Western European coins have also been found, as the isthmus laid on the Volga trade route ( at that time, the Vuoksi River had a distributary emptying into the Bay of Vyborg ).
By the end of the 19th century the nearby areas along the Saint Petersburg – Vyborg section had become popular place of summer resort for wealthy Saint Petersburgers.
* Large parts of the most populated southern region of remaining Finland had been connected to the world via the Saimaa Canal system, that now was severed at Vyborg where it connects to the Gulf of Finland.
The new given names of 1948 had no ties to historic names except Vyborg.
Ladoga level gradually sank as the River Neva had originated around 3100 – 2400 BP, draining its waters into the gulf of Finland, but Vuoksi still had a significant direct outflow connection to the Bay of Vyborg, possibly as late as in the 16th or 17th century AD.
After Finland's re-conquest of Vyborg, that had been a Swedish – Finnish key castle 1293 – 1721, a general display of flags was proclaimed for August 30.
* September 1941: During the Finnish army's re-invasion of the area around Lake Ladoga which had been lost to the USSR, Finnish forces took an island south of Vyborg, isolating 23 Soviet units who were in Vyborg port.

Vyborg and been
Apart from the old towns of Vyborg and Priozersk, and churches on the Konevets island of Lake Ladoga, since the late 19th century a number of other archaeological sites have been discovered on the isthmus.

Vyborg and ceded
On March 31 most of the ceded territories were incorporated into Karelo-Finnish SSR by a decision of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union ( in the Karelian Isthmus the districts of Jääski, Kexholm and Vyborg ).
This time the ceded territories of the Karelian Isthmus ( including the districts of Jääski, Kexholm and Vyborg ) were incorporated into Leningrad Oblast ( unlike Ladoga Karelia, which remained within the Karelo-Finnish SSR ).
The territory ceded to Russia was added to the Russian gains in the Treaty of Nystad () in 1721, under the Governorate of Vyborg.
The ceded parts of the County of Viborg and Nyslott and the County of Kexholm were at first part of the Saint Petersburg Governorate, but in 1744 they were reconsitituted into the Russian Vyborg Governorate, which also became known as Old Finland.
The ceded parts of the County of Viborg and Nyslott and the County of Kexholm were at first part of the Saint Petersburg Governorate, but in 1744 they were reconsitituted into the Russian Vyborg Governorate, which also became known as Old Finland.
Vyborg and the rest of the ceded Karelia outside the Republic of Karelia nowadays contain very few ethnic Finns, and is almost exclusively inhabited by people who moved there during the Soviet era and their descendants.

Vyborg and Soviet
* 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during World War II, ends to a strategic stalemate.
* 1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive.
* June 9 – WWII: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin launches the Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive against Finland, with the intent of defeating Finland before pushing for Berlin.
On 9 June 1944, strong Soviet forces opened the Vyborg Offensive and pushed the front from the pre-1939 border to Vyborg in ten days.
They were deployed in the defence of Vyborg but were unable to stop the advancing Soviet forces.
In June 1944, during the Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive, which led to Soviet recapture of Vyborg, Govorov was promoted to the rank of marshal of the Soviet Union.

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