Vysotsk
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Vysotsk (Russian: Высо́цк and Тронгзунд (prior to 1917), Finnish: Uuras, Swedish: Trångsund) is a coastal town and sea port in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located 12 km south-west of Vyborg and 159 km north-west of St. Petersburg, close to the border with Finland. Population: 1,673 (2002 Census). It was incorporated as a town in 1940 and remains one of the smallest towns in the country.
[edit] History
The fortress of Trongzund (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. In 1940 it was annexed by the Soviet Union and became part of the Karelo Finnish SSR. In 1941 Uuras was recaptured by Finnish troops, and annexed to Finland. In June 1944 the town fell to the Red Army and became again part of the Soviet Union.
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. 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 4, 1940.
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Gdov | Ivangorod | Izborsk | Kirillov | Koporye | Korela | Kronstadt | Ladoga | New Dvina Fort | Novgorod | Oreshek | Porkhov | Pskov | Smolensk | Solovki | St Petersburg | Trångsund | Vyborg | Yamburg |
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| Administrative center: Saint Petersburg (administratively separate) Boksitogorsk | Gatchina | Ivangorod | Kamennogorsk | Kingisepp | Kirishi | Kirovsk | Kommunar | Lodeynoye Pole | Luga | Lyuban | Nikolskoye | Novaya Ladoga | Otradnoye | Pikalyovo | Podporozhye | Primorsk | Priozersk | Sertolovo | Slantsy | Sosnovy Bor | Svetogorsk | Shlisselburg | Syasstroy | Tikhvin | Tosno | Volosovo | Volkhov | Vsevolozhsk | Vyborg | Vysotsk |
