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Viipuri (Russ. Выборг, Swed./Lule. Viborg) is an important Uralican port city that sits on the Gulf of Finland, near the southernmost tip of Karelia county. Viipuri sits just south of Highway UH-7, which runs westward towards Old Finland and northeast towards Käkisalmi.

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rdfs:label	Viipuri
rdfs:comment	Viipuri (Russ. Выборг, Swed./Lule. Viborg) is an important Uralican port city that sits on the Gulf of Finland, near the southernmost tip of Karelia county. Viipuri sits just south of Highway UH-7, which runs westward towards Old Finland and northeast towards Käkisalmi.
dcterms:subject	Settlements of Uralica
abstract	Viipuri (Russ. Выборг, Swed./Lule. Viborg) is an important Uralican port city that sits on the Gulf of Finland, near the southernmost tip of Karelia county. Viipuri sits just south of Highway UH-7, which runs westward towards Old Finland and northeast towards Käkisalmi. The exact date of the settlement's foundation is unknown, but records have shown the area inhabited by Karelians since the 11th century. The Swedes built the First Castle of Viborg in 1293, but did not fully take the area until 30 years later. The area would long be a contest point in wars between Swedes and Russians, but Sweden would retain control of Viborg until 1710, when Peter The Great overtook the area for Russia. This would be made official eleven years later by the Treaty of Nystad, although fighting between Russians and Swedes over the area would continue until the Russians finally took full control of Finland in 1809. Over a century later, after the Russian Revolution, Finland declared independence, and the area of what was called "Vyborg" under the Russians was officially renamed "Viipuri" for the first time. However, the Winter War (coincidental with World War II) would see much of Finnish Karelia fall back into Russian hands - in spite of the overall stalemate of that war, Viipuri was lost to the Soviets, with other land being ceded in 1944 due to the Finns having fought against the Allies of World War II, if only the Soviet Union. The name "Viipuri" only returned in 2009 by vote, after Uralica annexed the city. A picturesque and economically diverse city, Viipuri boasts one of the largest tourism sectors of any city in Uralica - only Syktyvkar, Kirov, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, and Yoshkar-Ola are larger. It is also Uralica's leading producer of paper and paper-based goods in terms of city output, with most of the wood supply coming from abroad, and in particular, largely from the nation of Kohona.

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