Vyborg

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• 1750, Homann's Heirs map
  
  

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• Viipuri, beginning of XX cent. St.Petersburg Environs
  
  
• Wyborg suburbs, 1855 St.Petersburg Environs
  
  

Located on Gulf of Finland; member of Hanseatic League by 14th cen.; captured by Peter the Great in 1710; included in Finland under Russian sovereignty in 1812 & under complete Finnish control 1918-1940; ceded back to Russia in 1947.

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Vyborg, Northern Fortresses Project

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