Taipale, former name of Solovyovo, a logging depot settlement in Leningrad Oblast, Russia
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The Battle of Taipale, fought between Soviet and Finnish forces during the Winter War
In the weeks before the Soviet attack, the whole Taipale sector had been under heavy shelling and daily infantry attacks.
Taipale at the Mannerheim Line, then approximately 20 kilometers from the Soviet border, became known for heavy fighting during the Winter War, and was held by the Finnish forces until the end of that war, when all of the Karelian Isthmus was ceded to the Soviet Union and had to be evacuated in haste.