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The military administration was established on the order of the Commander-in-Chief, and was mainly under the control of the Army, not the Finnish government. [2] [6] It was originally divided into three districts ("piiri"), which were further divided into sub-regions ("alue"). The military administration used exclusively Finnish-Karelian place ...
Finnish forces cross Vuoksi river in Äyräpää along a pontoon bridge, August 1941.The corps headquarters was formed from the peace-time III Corps. [1] Consisting of the 2nd, 15th and 18th Divisions, II Corps was part of the Finnish General HQ's reserve during the Finnish invasion of East Karelia of the Continuation War.
The capital of Karelia Petrozavodsk was taken in October and promptly renamed to the poetic Äänislinna. By September 1941, the Army of Karelia participated in the Siege of Leningrad, threatening the city from the east. During the autumn of 1941 the army took positions along the river Svir between lakes Ladoga and Onega.
The VII Corps (Finnish: VII Armeijakunta) was a corps of the Finnish Army during the Continuation War of 1941 to 1944, where the Finnish Army fought alongside Germans against the Soviet Union. Under command of Major General Woldemar Hägglund, it took part in the Finnish invasions of Ladoga Karelia and East Karelia, including the capture of ...
The I Corps (Finnish: I Armeijakunta) refers to several short-lived units of the Finnish Army before and during the Continuation War.The longest-lived I Corps participated in both the Finnish invasion of Ladoga Karelia and the Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus in 1941 before being disbanded in early 1942, before being re-designated V Corps.
Karelia Brigade (Finnish: Karjalan Prikaati; Swedish: Karelska brigaden) is one of the three Finnish Army readiness brigades. It is currently based at Valkeala . With some three thousand soldiers it is the second largest brigade in Finland .
Finnish military vehicles roundel during WWII. The Army of Karelia was formed on 29 June 1941 soon after the start of the Continuation War. There were seven Finnish corps in the field during the war: the I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. During the war the Finnish Army was responsible for the front from the Gulf of Finland to Kainuu.
Only a third of the original population of 470,000 remained in East Karelia when the Finnish army arrived, and half of them were Karelians. About 30 percent (24,000) of the remaining Russian population were confined in camps; six-thousand of them were Soviet refugees captured while they awaited transportation over Lake Onega , and 3,000 were ...