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Bay in the Gulf of Finland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vyborg Bay (Russian: Выборгский залив; Finnish: Viipurinlahti; Swedish: Viborgska viken) is a deep inlet running northeastward near the eastern end of Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. The Russian city of Vyborg is located near the head of the gulf.[1]


Since the mid-19th century, the bay has been connected by the Saimaa Canal to the lake Saimaa in Finland.[2]
In 1790, the bay was the scene of one of the largest naval battles in history, the Battle of Vyborg Bay, with a total of 498 Russian and Swedish ships.[3]
The end of the bay is called Zashchitnaya Bay (Russian: бухта Защитная, Finnish: Suomenvedenpohja.) In the Middle Ages, the river Vuoksi had an outlet there, which dried up little by little due to post-glacial rebound and was left completely dry in 1857 when the Kiviniemi rapids in Losevo (Russian: Лосево, Finnish: Kiviniemi), Karelian isthmus were formed and the Burnaya River became the main outlet of Vuoksa.[4]
Lodochnyy Island lies in the middle of the bay, between Vyborg and Vysotsk.[1]
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