Viipuri (province)
The province of Viipuri ( Finnish Viipurin lääni , Swedish Viborgs län ) was a province ( lääni ) of Finland in the historical Karelia region from 1812 to 1945 . It had Viipuri (now Vyborg ) as its capital and comprised today's landscape of South Karelia , the eastern part of Kymenlaakso and the areas on the Karelian Isthmus and north of Lake Ladoga (so-called Ladoga-Karelia) that were then part of Finland .
When Finland belonged to Sweden from 1634 to 1721, there was already a province Viipuri-Savonlinna ( Viborgs och Nyslotts län ). The area of the later Viipuri Province fell to Russia in 1721 and 1743 respectively . After the rest of Finland fell to Russia in 1809, the so-called Old Finland was annexed to the newly founded autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland in 1812 and converted into the province of Viipuri. After the lost Winter War ended , Finland had to cede most of the Viipuri Province including the city of Viipuri to the Soviet Union in 1940. During the Continuation War, Finland temporarily retook the area in 1941, but ceded it for good in 1944. As a result, the parts of Viipuri Province that remained on the Finnish side were converted into Kymi Province in 1945 .
literature
- Nikolai Michailowitsch Knipowitsch: Wyborgskaya Gubernija . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 7 [13]: Волапюк – Выговские. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1892, p. 463–467 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF - Province of Vyborg, + addition in supplementary volume 1: Аа – Вяхирь. P. 469).
- Valentin Janin and others: Otetschestwennaja istorija: istorija Rossii s drewneischich wremen do 1917 goda. Volume 1. Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1994, ISBN 5-85270-076-2 , pp. 486-487 (Russian).