Karelian Fortified Region

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22nd Karelian Fortified Region (KaUR; Russian: Карельский укрепленный район; Карельский укрепрайон; КаУР) is a 60 km wide area of Soviet defensive fortifications to the north of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) that was built in 1928-1932, 1938-1939, 1941-1944 and 1950-1965 in the Soviet part of Karelian Isthmus among other fortified areas (so called Stalin Line) constructed around that time in order to protect Western borders of the Soviet Union. KaUR spans along the old Finland-Russia border from Beloostrov near the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland through Lembolovo to Nizhniye Nikulyasy Bay on the western shore of Lake Ladoga.

Its commander in 1941 was General Major Mikhail Andrianovich Popov.

[edit] See also

• Mannerheim Line
• Salpa Line
• Molotov Line
• Stalin Line