Summer (island)
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| Waters | Gulf of Finland | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 12 ′ N , 27 ° 39 ′ E | |
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Sommers (Russian: Соммерс ; Finnish: Someri ; Swedish: Sommarö ) is an island in the Gulf of Finland . The island is around one kilometer long and is located in Vyborg Rajon in the Russian Oblast of Leningrad, around 19 km south of Virolahti in Finland . The island, which was Finnish until 1940, was again occupied by Finnish troops after the winter war of 1942 and was fought over in summer 1942, was formally ceded to the Soviet Union in 1947 and has belonged to the Russian Federation ever since . On top of it stands a 37 m high lighthouse built in 1945, which replaces a beacon from 1808 that was shut down in World War II .