The Battle of the Bay of Viipuri was a battle in the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War (1941-1944). Combatants  Finland Germany  USSR  United Kingdom Commanders Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Strength 450,000 men +1,000,000 men Casualties 66,000 dead 188,000 wounded 1,500 civilian casualties 305,000 dead or missing +700,000 wounded 64,188 captured The Continuation War or War of Continuation (Finnish: , Swedish... Combatants Germany, Finland Soviet Union Commanders Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (Armee Norwegen) Roman Panin (Northern Front) The original plan for operation Silver Fox. Operation Silver Fox (Unternehmen Silberfuchs) was a German operation during World War II. Its main goal was the capture of the Soviet port at Murmansk through attacks from... Combatants Finland Soviet Union Commanders Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim Karl Lennart Oesch Leonid Govorov Kirill Meretskov Strength 268,000 375,000 Casualties 18,000 killed, 45,000 wounded, 3,000 prisoners 40,000 killed, 130,000 wounded During World War II, in the Continuation War, the Fourth Strategic Offensive was... Combatants Finland, Germany Soviet Union Commanders Lt. ... The Battle of Vuosalmi (a. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem: The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital (and largest city) Moscow None; Russian de facto Government Federation of Soviet Republics  - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev  - Last Premier Ivan Silayev Establishment October Revolution   - Declared... Combatants  Finland Germany  USSR  United Kingdom Commanders Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Strength 450,000 men +1,000,000 men Casualties 66,000 dead 188,000 wounded 1,500 civilian casualties 305,000 dead or missing +700,000 wounded 64,188 captured The Continuation War or War of Continuation (Finnish: , Swedish...

The Battle took place when the Soviet 59th Army attacked across the islands of the Bay of Viipuri from July 4th, 1944, on. The Soviet attack to the Finnish mainland was thrown back to the sea by the German 122nd Division of the V AK on July 10th, 1944. The Bay of Vyborg is a deep inlet running northeastward near the eastern end of Gulf of Finland. ...

Althoug the Finnish troops had abandoned the Finnish city of Viipuri only shortly before - only using delaying tactics -, from here on all the remaining major battles of the Continuation War were to end in decisive Finnish defense victories. Not to be confused with the Danish town and county of Viborg in Jutland Viapori, a Finnish transcription of Sveaborg, better known as Suomenlinna castle Vyborg from the tower of the castle Vyborg (transcription of Russian Выборг) is a town with 70,000 inhabitants at...