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The Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus refers to a military campaign carried out by Finland in 1941. It was part of what is commonly referred to as the Continuation War . Early in the war Finnish forces liberated the Karelian Isthmus .
The Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus was a military campaign carried out by Finland in 1941. The aims of the offensive were to recapture the Karelian Isthmus which Finland ceded to the Soviet Union as an aftermath of the Winter War in 1940. The offensive took place from 31 July–5 September 1941.
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 ...
Troops advancing from various directions towards the town were reformed as II Corps consisting of the Finnish 4th Division, Group O, Brigade (or Group) K and were further reinforced with the 8th Division that was transferred from the Karelian Isthmus.
The Continuation War, [f] also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II.It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice.
Itä-Karjalan valtaus 1941 [The Conquest of Eastern Karelia, 1941] (in Finnish). Jyväksylä: Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy. ISBN 951-20-6161-9. Rautala, Ari (2004). Karjalan Kannaksen takaisinvaltaus kesällä 1941 [The Reconquest of the Karelian Isthmus in Summer 1941] (in Finnish). Jyväksylä: Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy. ISBN 951-20-6636-X.
On 15 October 1941, the IV Corps consisted of the 12th, 2nd, 18th and 19th Divisions positioned on the western half of the Karelian Isthmus. Also on the isthmus was the I Corps, consisting of the 10th and 15th Divisions. [17] The Finns refused several German demands for a Finnish attack on Leningrad. [18]
Map of the Karelian Isthmus. Shown are some important towns, the current Finnish-Russian border in the North-West and the pre-Winter War border further South.The Karelian Isthmus (Russian: Карельский перешеек, romanized: Karelsky peresheyek; Finnish: Karjalankannas; Swedish: Karelska näset) is the approximately 45–110-kilometre-wide (30–70 mi) stretch of land situated ...