Viborg - the only swedish city in Russia - just a visit

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Travel story: Viborg - the only swedish city in Russia - just a visit

Then I was at annual high energy physics in Repino (elite suburb of St.Petersburg) organised by St.Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics (in Gathina) I took the opportunity and went into Viborg.

Viborg is situated some 120 km north-west from St-Petersburg. It was founded during swedish colonisation of Finland and taken by Russian empire during Peter I times. After October Revolution it became Finnish and was named something like Viypuri. Then after Soviet-Finish conflict (or... More