Stele «City of Military Glory» (Vyborg)
Russia /
Leningrad /
Vyborg
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/ Russia
/ Leningrad
/ Vyborg
, 1 km from center (Выборг)
World / Russia / Leningrad
interesting place, 2011_construction, war memorial, Great Patriotic War
Before World War II Vyborg (originally Viipuri) was one of the oldest and the second largest city of Finland. It was lost to Soviet Union after Winter War according to Moscow Peace Treaty. At the early stages of Continuation War Finland regained Vyborg essentially without a fight. On June 20 1944, troops led by Marshall Leonid Govorov, as part of the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive broke through the Mannerheim Line, and Vyborg was captured by the Soviet Union again. As a result of the offensive, the Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland and the Soviet Union, and ended the Continuation War. Vyborg remained with Soviet Union. Some 23,500 Soviet troops lost their lives in the attack for Vyborg.
Vyborg was conferred the status of “City of Military Glory” by the President of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Anatolyevich Medvedev on March 25, 2010, for “courage, endurance and mass heroism, exhibited by defenders of the city in the struggle for the freedom and independence of the Motherland”. A ceremony was held in the Moscow Kremlin on 4 May 2010 at which the city was represented by the Head of the Administration of Vyborgsky District Konstantin Patrayev.
Vyborg was conferred the status of “City of Military Glory” by the President of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Anatolyevich Medvedev on March 25, 2010, for “courage, endurance and mass heroism, exhibited by defenders of the city in the struggle for the freedom and independence of the Motherland”. A ceremony was held in the Moscow Kremlin on 4 May 2010 at which the city was represented by the Head of the Administration of Vyborgsky District Konstantin Patrayev.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Military_Glory
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 60°42'27"N 28°44'43"E
- Batareynaya hill 0.4 km
- Pantserlaks bastion 0.6 km
- Lenin park 0.8 km
- Kontrgard 2 km
- Annenskie fortification 2.1 km
- Ovchinny island 10 km
- Brusnichnoe (Juustila) lock 12 km
- Fortress Trongsund 12 km
- Russian border fence, so called "Iron curtain" 16 km
- Russian frontier picket. 16 km
- Vyborgskikh Polkov square
- Garden park 0.2 km
- Naval Air Force training school 0.4 km
- Red square 0.4 km
- Sobornaya square 0.5 km
- Tsentralny District 1.1 km
- Vyborg railway station 1.7 km
- Tverdysh island 2.6 km
- Petrovsky district 3.3 km
- Vyborg Bay 8.1 km