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 LEMBOLOVOHEIGHTS * 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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