Porkkala Naval Base information

Porkkala Naval Base was a Soviet naval base operational from 1944–1956 in the municipalities of Kirkkonummi, Ingå and Siuntio on the Porkkala peninsula...

Second World War, the Soviet Union secured the rights of lease to a naval base at Porkkala, in accordance with the Moscow armistice agreement that ended the...

Hanko Naval Base was a Soviet naval base from 1940 to 1941 in the town of Hanko at the Hanko Peninsula, which is located 100 kilometers (62 mi) from Helsinki...

in World War II, from 1944 to 1956, the Soviet Union operated the Porkkala Naval Base in this area, under a lease with Finland. Kantvik Eero Auvinen (1999)...

2018. Osborn, Andrew (November 16, 2020). "Putin, extending Russian footprint, approves new naval facility in Sudan". Reuters – via www.reuters.com....

55th Rifle Division was converted into a garrison formation for the Porkkala Naval Base after the Finnish capitulation in late September 1944. plus numerous...

one of the conditions was that the Soviets could locate one naval base in Finland at Porkkala. Submarine warfare in the Baltic Sea reached its final stage...

IXbis, only this boat survived the war. Marinesko left the Soviet Porkkala Naval Base in Finland on 11 January 1945 and took position near Kolberg on January...

1955–1962 It was the only Soviet base in the Mediterranean in the 1950s. Porkkala Naval Base  Finland 1944–1956 Signals intelligence facility. Rostock  East Germany...

Southern Siuntio were leased to the Soviet Union as part of the Porkkala Naval Base for 50 years following the 1944 Moscow Armistice between Finland...

armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union of 19 September 1944; the Porkkala naval base was returned to Finland in January 1956. In both cases, the Soviets...

and in January 1956 the Soviet Union removed its troops from the Porkkala naval base near Helsinki. Paasikivi did not actively seek re-election from his...

Points of interest include items from the Soviet rental era of Porkkala Naval Base, parts of an 18th-century organ from St. Peter's Church in Siuntio...

almost unchanged since 1872. After the Second World War the area of Porkkala Naval Base was rented for the Soviet Union. Parts of municipalities of Siuntio...

for express trains to Turku via the Porkkala Naval Base, with the train windows covered when passing the naval base.: 12  From 1955 to 1957 the exit hall...

century. The ownership was only briefly disrupted by the lease of Porkkala Naval Base area to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. After the Soviet...

Espoonlahti bay between Espoo and Kirkkonummi served as the border of the Porkkala Naval Base under the control of the Soviet Union. A large part of Kirkkonummi...

(Upinniemi) MLC Hämeenmaa 1st Missile Unit (Hamina class) 1st Mine Unit (MLI Porkkala, MLI Pyhäranta) 8th Service Support Squadron (Pansio and Upinniemi) 1st...

recorded at around 4 million. As Finland was forced to lease the Porkkala Naval Base and its surrounding areas to the Soviet Union in 1944, westbound...

exist in 1945 after major part of it became a part of the Soviet naval base Porkkala. In 1940 there were 1 490 people living in Degerby with majority...

on land taken over by the Soviet Union during the creation of the Porkkala Naval Base in the aftermath of the Continuation War. Nordensvan moved with his...

approximately 30%, of the municipality of Siuntio fell to the leased area of Porkkala Naval Base and even Fanjunkars croft was left behind the newly created border...

of the Riga Naval Defense Region of the Baltic Fleet. In September 1944, he was appointed as the first commander of the Porkkala Naval Base in Finland...