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  2. Army of Karelia - Wikipedia

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    The Karelian Army fought north of Lake Ladoga. On July 10 the Army started its offensive against East Karelia , north of Lake Ladoga . The aim was to reclaim the areas lost to the Soviet Union in the Winter War , but also to advance deeper into Soviet territory to gain a more easily defensible front .

  3. Finnish invasion of East Karelia (1941) - Wikipedia

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    The Finnish forces consisted of the units of the Karelian Army under Lieutenant General Erik Heinrichs. Furthest to the south was VI Corps under Major General Paavo Talvela who had two divisions (the 5th and 17th Divisions) in front line positions and Group L or Group Lagus (consisting of the 1st Jäger Brigade and certain elements of the 5th ...

  4. Karelian Group - Wikipedia

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    The Karelian Group "Nord" [10] (Karelian: Karjalan ryhmä), formerly known as the Karelian National Battalion (Ukrainian: Карельський національний батальйон, romanized: Karelskyi natsionalnyi batalion; Karelian: Karjalan Kansallini Pataljona) also known as Nord, [10] is a formation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, functioning as a component of the Russian ...

  5. East Karelian uprising - Wikipedia

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    By the end of December 1921, the Finnish volunteers and Karelian Forest Guerrillas had advanced to the Kiestinki Suomussalmi – Rukajärvi – Paatene – Porajärvi lines. Meanwhile, the ca. 20 000 troops of the Red Army led by Alexander Sedyakin [21] have reached Karelia and mounted a counterattack. The Red Army also had Red Finns within

  6. Karelian Front - Wikipedia

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    The Karelian Front was created in August 1941 when Northern Front was split into Karelian Front and Leningrad Front to take account of the different military developments and requirements on the Leningrad approaches versus those along the Finnish border to the Arctic. It remained in existence until the end of the war.

  7. Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive - Wikipedia

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    The Finnish Army retreated further, delaying the Karelian Front's advance, allowing for the U-line, running northwards from Pitkäranta to Loimola and Kivijärvi, to be reinforced. The first 7th Army units reached the U-line on July 10, but were fatigued following the long offensive and failed to breach the defence line.

  8. Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic - Wikipedia

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    The Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, [a] Karelian ASSR [b] for short, sometimes referred to as Soviet Karelia, East Karelia or simply Karelia, was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union, with its capital in Petrozavodsk. It existed from 25 July 1923 to 31 March 1940 and again from 6 July 1956 to 13 ...

  9. Karelians - Wikipedia

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    Karelians (Karelian: karjalaižet, karjalazet, karjalaiset; Finnish: karjalaiset; Swedish: kareler, karelare; Russian: карелы, romanized: karely) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia, which is today split between Finland and Russia.