The Bay of Vyborg or Bay of Viipuri is a deep inlet running northeastward near the eastern end of Gulf of Finland. The city of Viipuri/Vyborg is located near the head of the gulf. The Baltic Sea The Gulf of Finland is an arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Finland (to the north) and Estonia (to the south) all the way to the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. ... Vyborg from the tower of the castle. ...
The bay is connected by the Saimaa Canal to the lake Saimaa in Finland. Saimaa Canal (Finnish: Saimaan kanava, Swedish: Saima kanal) is a canal in a system of 120 interconnected lakes in the south-central and south-east part of Finland. ... A Picture of a canal in Saimaa Saimaa, or Saimen in Swedish, is a lake in southeastern Finland. ...
Vyborg (Cyrillic Выборг, Finnish Viipuri, Swedish Viborg, German Wiburg) is a Russian town with 70,000 inhabitants on the Karelian Isthmus, near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, 130 km to the north-west of Saint Petersburg, 38 km south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimensky Canal enters the Gulf of Finland.
The area used to be inhabited by the Karelians, a Finnic tribe which gradually came under the domination of Novgorod and Sweden.
In the proximity of Vyborg there is since 1982 a HVDC back-to-back facility for the change of electricity between the Russian and Finnish power grid.
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