Karelian Isthmus - Notable People From The Isthmus

Notable People From The Isthmus

* Vaalimaa LAKE SAIMAA Bay of Vyborg Beryozovye Islands Seiskari * Vysotsk * Primorsk * Sovetsky * Saimaa Canal * Pribylovo * Svetogorsk * Lesogorsky * Kamenka Lake Glubokoye * Kamennogorsk * Veshchevo *Kirillovskoye REPUBLIC OF KARELIA * Vuoksi River * Roshchino Kotlin * Zelenogorsk * Hiitola * Korobitsyno * Pervomayskoye * Elisenvaara * Kronstadt * Komarovo * Tiversk * Michurinskoye * Kuznechnoye * Sestra River * Sestroretsk Kilpola LEMBOLOVO
HEIGHTS * Beloostrov * Losevo * Volchya River Lake Sukhodolskoye * Gromovo * Sertolovo * Sosnovo * Okhta River * Vaskelovo * Finlyandsky Rail Terminal * Devyatkino * Burnaya River * Neva River * Toksovo Konevets Valaam FINLAND GULF OF FINLAND * Lappeenranta * Vyborg * Imatra * Priozersk ST. PETERSBURG LAKE LADOGA * Vsevolozhsk
  • Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish president
  • Georg Elfvengren, Finnish military commander
  • Gustav Hägglund, Finnish military commander
  • Max Jakobson, Finnish diplomat
  • Gustaf Komppa, Finnish chemist
  • Juho Niukkanen, Finnish politician
  • Karl Lennart Oesch, Finnish military commander
  • Larin Paraske, Finnish oral poet
  • Uno Ullberg, Finnish architect
  • Johannes Virolainen, Finnish politician
  • Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Edith Södergran, Swedish-speaking Finnish poet.

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