hidden Museums Museums are the institutions collecting, saving, studing, exhibiting and popularizing the memorials of history, culture and nature. There are natural science museums, art museums, literature museums, memorial museums, theme museums, museums of... more

hidden Pantserlaks, a bastion (Vyborg Town) Pantserlaks (Vyborg Town, Luzhskaya Street, 1) is a bastion of the so-called Rogatnaya Fortress (1563 – 1590s, fortifiers A. Maalari, I. de Mess) that defended suburb of Vyborg – Zemlyanoy Town. The three-cornered bastion was built in 1579-81, it... more

hidden Pobeda, settlement POBEDA (Finnish Kanneljarvi before 1948), a settlement in Vyborg District. Population: 1900. Located on the shore of Lake Pobednoye (former Kanneljarvi, from the name of the musical instrument kantele, which the lake resembles in its shape.) Located... more

hidden Round Tower (Vyborg Town), the The Round Tower (Vyborg Town, The Market square). The tower was built by fortifier Gans Bergen. The tower was located in 20 m from the fortress wall which defended Vyborg from the outside Novgorod road. The tower protected Skotogonnuye Gate (The... more

hidden The Leningrad Oblast State Archive in Vyborg LENINGRAD OBLAST STATE ARCHIVE IN VYBORG (LOGAV) (the town of Vyborg, 1 Shturm Street) Formed in 1940 as branch of Central State Archive of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of Karelo-Finn Soviet Socialist Republic ; in 1951 renamed... more

hidden Ulberg, Uno Werner (1879 -1944), an architect Uno Werner Ulberg (1879, Vyborg Town - 1944), an architect. He graduated a secondary school in Vyborg Town. In 1903 he received the certificate of degree at the Finland Polytechnic College and went for several educational trips to European... more

hidden Vyborg, town VYBORG (Swedish Wiborg; Finnish Viipuri, until 1948), town, adm. center of Vyborg District. Population: 79,200. The toponym Vyborg originates from the Old Norse Wiborg = “sacred fortress.” It was founded in 1293 at the place of the Vuoksa River’s... more