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unusual facts about Vyborg–Joensuu Railway



30th Guards Army Corps

The corps was deployed during the postwar period on the Karelian Isthmus with the headquarters in the city of Vyborg (Leningrad Military District).

Benyamin Kayurov

By the time of the February Revolution, he was working in the Erikson factory in Vyborg, St Petersburg.

Elisenvaara

The settlement grew around the railroad junction, with railroad connections to Vyborg, Sortavala, Lappeenranta and Savonlinna.

Finland Station

Suburban commuter trains (elektrichka) connect Finlyandsky station with the towns of Sestroretsk, Zelenogorsk, Primorsk, Vyborg and Priozersk.

Ivan III of Russia

In the Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497) Ivan III unsuccessfully attempted to conquer Viborg from Sweden but this attempt was checked by the Swedish garrison in Viborg Castle led by Lord Knut Posse.

Kamennogorsk

The town is connected by roads with Vyborg, Svetogorsk, and Melnikovo.

Nord Stream AG

Nord Stream AG is a consortium for construction and operation of the planned Nord Stream submarine pipeline between Vyborg in Russia and Greifswald in Germany, a project initially promoted by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Vladimir Putin.

Paavo Rintala

Paavo Rintala (born in Vyborg, Finland on 20 September 1930 - died in Kirkkonummi, Finland 8 August 1999) is a Finnish novelist and theologian.

Peter Kirillovich Essen

In August 1800, Essen was appointed military governor of Vyborg, Finland, and chief of the garrison of the Gorchakov Vyborg regiment.

Priozersk

The new given names of 1948 had no ties to historic names except Vyborg.

The town is connected by roads with Saint Petersburg, Vyborg, and Sortavala.

Priozersky District

Another railroad, connecting Vyborg with Hiitola via Kamennogorsk, serves as a stretch of the border with Vyborgsky District.

Rapakivi granite

Most (but not all) orthoclase crystals have plagioclase rims (type Vyborgite, named after the city of Vyborg)

Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway

The Russian part of the railroad is used by suburban trains (elektrichkas) of the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal with their final destinations at Zelenogorsk, Roshchino, Kanneljärvi, Kirillovskoye, Gavrilovo (Kämärä) or Vyborg, as well as elektrichkas Vyborg–Buslovskaya (Houni).

Saint Petersburg – Hiitola railroad

The railway connected Hiitola (Khiytola) on the Vyborg–Joensuu Railway with Finland Station in St. Petersburg, bypassing the Riihimäki-Vyborg-Saint Petersburg trunk line of Finnish railways.

Sertolovo

In particular, it is located on the highway heading in the direction of Vyborg.

Tower of St. Olav

During this reconstruction Vyborg сastle took the general form that it has retained to this day, but Horn did not have time to finish the defensive works and Tower of St. Olav was finally reconstructed by his son, Eric XIV.

Vyborg–Joensuu railroad

The bombing of the Elisenvaara station of the Karelian railroad on 20 June 1944, during the final stages of the Continuation War, was the most fatal bombing in Finnish history; over a hundred civilians were killed when bombs hit a train of Karelian evacuees


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