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Vyborg (transcription of Russian Выборг) is a town with 70,000 inhabitants at Russia's border to Finland, on the Karelian Isthmus, close to Saint Petersburg . The Saimaa canal enters the Gulf of Finland at Vyborg. After 1944, when the Karelian inhabitants were evacuated to the West, the town was resettled by people from different parts of the Soviet Union.
In EnglishThe English language is a West Germanic language, originating from England. It is the third most common "first" language (native speakers), with around 402 million people in 2002. English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the mil texts Vyborg may also be referred to as Viipuri ( Finnish spelling), Viborg ( SwedishFinland-Swedish is a variety of Swedish. Until 1863 Swedish, not Finnish, was the language of jurisdiction, administration and higher education in Finland. In 1892 Finnish and Swedish became official languages with equal status, and at Finland's independe) and Wiburg ( GermanGerman (called Deutsch in German in which germanisch refers to prechristian times), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and one of the world's major languages. It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union.).
Historically the city belonged to:
- SwedenThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf with present-day Finlandsterland or sterlanden is a historical land of Sweden. sterland which literally means eastern lands, is the old name for what today geographically is the southern part of the Republic of Finland. It is bounded to the north by the sparsely populated Norrla, as capital of Swedish KareliaFinnish Karelia historically also Swedish Karelia or Carelia is a historical province in eastern Finland. It refers to the western parts of Karelia that during the second millennium has been under western dominance, religiously and politically. Western Ka, from 1293Events May 20 King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcala. Births Deaths 1293. until 1721Events Pope Innocent XIII becomes pope Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos April 4 Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain September 10 Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War November
- Imperial Russia, until 1812 (see Old Finland)
- The Grand Duchy of Finland, under Russian sovereignty, until 1917
- The Republic of Finland, until March 1940 (re-conquered August 1941 – June 1944)
- The Soviet Union
- Russia, since 1991
