Everything about Vysotsk totally explained
Vysotsk (and Тронгзунд (prior to 1917),, ) is a coastal
town and sea port in
Vyborgsky District of
Leningrad Oblast,
Russia, located on
Karelian Isthmus, on the eastern shore of the
Bay of Vyborg, 12 km south-west of
Vyborg and 159 km north-west of
St. Petersburg. It hosts a base of the Russian
Baltic Fleet. Population: 1,673 (
2002 Census). It was incorporated as a town in
1940 and remains one of the smallest towns in the country.
History
The fortress of Trångsund (literally: "narrow strait") was built to the order of
Peter the Great in the beginning of the 18th century after
Russia had captured the area from
Sweden during the
Great Northern War. In
1812 Trongzund was included by
Alexander I of Russia into the newly-created
Grand Duchy of Finland.
Between
1918 and
1940 the town was part of independent
Finland under the name
Uuras. As a result of the
Winter War, in 1940 with the
Moscow Peace Treaty it was annexed by the
Soviet Union and became part of the
Karelo Finnish SSR. In
1941 Uuras was recaptured by Finnish troops and reannexed to Finland in the
Continuation War. In June
1944 the town fell to the Red Army again and was ceded to the Soviet Union by Finland according to the
Moscow Armistice and
Paris Peace Treaty. In July 1948 the town was renamed Vysotsk, in honour of the Soviet machine gunner Kuzma Demidovich Vysotsky, who was killed in the area on
March 41940, during the final days of the Winter War.
Vysotsk may be considered a place where
radio was born, because it was there that
Alexander Stepanovich Popov conducted his pioneering experiments in
1897 and
1902.
A major oil port started operating at Vysotsk in 2004.
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