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Province of Petsamo
Petsamon lääni Petsamo län
Province of Finland
1921–1945
Coat of arms
Capital
Petsamo
Area
•
11,338.68 km2 (4,377.89 sq mi)
History
• Established
1921
• Disestablished
1945
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Russian SFSR
Province of Oulu
The Province of Petsamo (Finnish: Petsamon lääni, Swedish: Petsamo län) was a Finnish panhandle. It was a separate province from 1921 to 1922, when it was merged into the Province of Oulu. This panhandle used to give Finland access to the Arctic Ocean, until it was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1944.
The Province of Petsamo (Finnish: Petsamon lääni, Swedish: Petsamo län) was a Finnish panhandle. It was a separate province from 1921 to 1922, when it...
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The Petsamo expeditions (Finnish: Petsamon retket, Swedish: Petsamoexpeditionerna) were two military expeditions in May 1918 and in April 1920 by Finnish...
Russia proper as the new Finnish–Soviet border. Finland also received PetsamoProvince, with its ice-free harbour on the Arctic Ocean. Despite the signing...
Soviet Union. After the war, Finland ceded the area of the former PetsamoProvince to the Soviet Union and thereby lost its connection to the Arctic Ocean...
The same day the Germans launched Operation Rentier and occupied the PetsamoProvince at the Finnish-Soviet border. Simultaneously Finland proceeded to remilitarise...
World War II, between 1921 and 1944, Nautsi was a Finnish village in PetsamoProvince. Finnish forces retreated to this location in 1939 during the Winter...
Gauriloff was born in the village of Suonikylä (Skolt Sami: Suõʹnnʼjel), PetsamoProvince, Finland, a few months before the Winter War broke out. The family...
northernmost province of Finland. During the Second World War it was an important transport hub since it lay on the road to the Petsamo area and the only...
easternmost parts of the Norwegian Finnmark province from German occupation. The Karelian Front in the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation conducted the only[citation...
The Governor (Finnish: Maaherra, or Swedish: Landshövding) of a province of Finland headed the activities of the State Provincial Office (Finnish: Lääninhallitus...
largely following the historic border but granting Pechenga (Finnish: Petsamo) and its Barents Sea harbour to Finland. Finnish democracy did not experience...
retains its special autonomous status and its own regional parliament. Each province was led by a governor (Finnish maaherra, Swedish landshövding) appointed...
area north of Lake Ladoga. The defence of the rest of the border up to Petsamo by the Arctic Ocean was given to the North Finland Group which consisted...
Republic ceded the fortress to Soviet Russia in exchange for the city of Petsamo. However, the Finnish White Guards, who ultimately came out victorious...
the Petsamo municipality to the Soviet Union in the Moscow Armistice. The Soviet forces took the municipality from the Germans during the Petsamo–Kirkenes...
Kandalakshsky District of the Karelian ASSR. The area of Pechengsky District (Petsamo in Finnish), which was ceded to Finland by the 1920 Treaty of Tartu and...
cities of Lublin and Białystok The northeast of Sweden, in the Norrbotten province, including the cities of Kalix and Haparanda The northeast of Norway, lying...
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