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Vyborg
Vyborg
(; ; , ; ; ; ) is a
town
and the
administrative center
of
Vyborgsky District
in
Leningrad Oblast
,
Russia
, located on the
Karelian Isthmus
near the head of the
Vyborg Bay
, to the northwest of
St. Petersburg
and south of
Russia's border with Finland
, where the
Saimaa Canal
enters the
Gulf of Finland
. Population:
The town lies in the boundary zone between the East Slavic/Russian and Finnish worlds and has changed hands several times in history, most recently in 1944 when it was taken by the Soviet Union from Finland during
World War II
.
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