Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast Totally Explained

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Vyborgsky District is a district (raion) of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on Karelian Isthmus, established in 1940 when the territory had been ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union by Moscow Peace Treaty as a result of the Winter War. The area of the district is 7,350.9 km². Its administrative center is the town of Vyborg (which is administratively not a part of the district). District's population:
Administratively, the district comprises four towns (Kamennogorsk, Primorsk, Svetogorsk, Vysotsk), three urban-type settlements (Lesogorsky, Roshchino, Sovetsky), and twenty-two volosts (Bolshepolskaya, Borodinskaya, Gavrilovskaya, Glebychevskaya, Goncharovskaya, Gvardeyskaya, Kirillovskaya, Kondratyevskaya, Krasnodolinskaya, Krasnoselskaya, Krasnosokolskaya, Leninskaya, Losevskaya, Pervomayskaya, Polyanskaya, Seleznyovskaya, Sokolinskaya, Tokarevskaya, Tsvelodubskaya, Vozrozhdenskaya, Yermilovskaya, and Zhitkovskaya).
A 20-35 km wide stretch of land in the district to the west of the Vyborg–Hiitola railway, as well as the islands and shores of the Gulf of Vyborg, belong to the strictly guarded zone of the border control. In 1993 - 2006 formally the zone was 5km wide, although in reality it has always been much wider. Visiting it's forbidden without a permit issued by the FSB (KGB in the time of the Soviet Union).

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