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The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive or Karelian offensive [Notes 3] was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet forces captured East Karelia and Vyborg/Viipuri. After that, however ...
The Battle of Vyborg was a significant battle during the Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus, part of the Continuation War. The battle took place from August 21 to September 1 where Finland aimed to recapture the city of Vyborg from Soviet control. The battle ended in the Finnish capture of Vyborg and surrounding areas.
The IV Corps (Finnish: IV Armeijakunta) was a unit of the Finnish Army during the Continuation War.During the 1941 Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus, it encircled three Soviet divisions in the area south of Vyborg before being renamed as Isthmus Group (Finnish: Kannaksen ryhmä).
The Finnish Army (Finnish: Maavoimat) mobilised between 475,000 and 500,000 soldiers in 14 divisions and 3 brigades for the invasion, commanded by Field Marshal (sotamarsalkka) Mannerheim. The army was organised as follows: [74] [76] [77] II Corps and IV Corps: deployed to the Karelian Isthmus and comprised seven infantry divisions and one brigade.
Early in the war Finnish forces liberated the Karelian Isthmus. It had been ceded to the Soviet Union on 13 March 1940, in the Moscow Peace Treaty, which marked the end of the Winter War. Later, in the summer of 1944, the Soviet Union reconquered the southern part of the isthmus in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
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