Solovyovo, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast

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Taipale at the eastern end of the Mannerheim Line (pre-1940 border)

Solovyovo (Template:Langx; Template:Langx), formerly Taipale, is a rural locality (a settlement) in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the western shore of Lake Ladoga on the Karelian Isthmus about Template:Convert north of Saint Petersburg. The settlement is approximately Template:Convert east-southeast of the post-Winter War border with Finland. Vuoksi River's southern armlet Burnaya empties into Lake Ladoga at Solovyovo. As of January 1997, its population was 7.<ref name="1997Pop">Administrative-Territorial Structure of Leningrad Oblast, p. 102</ref>

History

Taipale, at the Mannerheim Line then approximately Template:Convert from the Finnish–Soviet border, became known for heavy fighting during the Battle of Taipale in December 1939 during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. The area was held by the Finnish forces until the end of that war, when all of the Karelian Isthmus was ceded to the Soviet Union and had to be evacuated in haste.

References

Sources

• В.Г. Кожевников (V.G. Kozhevnikov). "Административно-территориальное деление Ленинградской области" (Administrative-Territorial Structure of Leningrad Oblast), 1997. Template:ISBN.