The Salpa Line (Finnish: Salpalinja, literally Latch line; Swedish: Salpalinjen), or its official name, Suomen Salpa (Finland's Latch), is a bunker line on the eastern border of Finland. It was built in 1940–1941 during the Interim Peace between the Winter War and the Continuation War and further in 1944 to defend Finland against a possible Soviet invasion.
The line is 1,200 kilometres long, stretching from the Gulf of Finland to Petsamo (now Pechenga, Russia). It never saw military action because the Soviet offensive in 1944 was stopped at the VKT-line on the Karelian Isthmus. The fortifications of the Salpa Line were significantly more complete and stronger than those of the Mannerheim Line.[1]
^Reino Arimo, Suomen linnoittamisen historia 1918—1944 (The History of Finnish Fortification 1918—1944), Otava, 1981, ISBN 951-1-06263-8[page needed]
SalpaLine (Finnish: Salpalinja, literally Latch line; Swedish: Salpalinjen), or its official name, Suomen Salpa (Finland's Latch), is a bunker line on...
The SalpaLine Museum (Finnish: Salpalinja-museo, Russian: Музей линии "Салпа") was established and opened in 1987 by the municipality of Miehikkälä and...
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are two other attractions related to the Engineer corps of Finland: the SalpaLine Museum in Miehikkälä and the Bunker Museum [fi] in Virolahti. The history...
discovered a deposit at Ylämaa in south-eastern Finland, while building the SalpaLine fortifications there in 1940. The quarrying of spectrolite began after...
World War II SalpaLine, The last fortified defence line of Finland against the Soviet Union in World War II Iron Curtain, dividing line through Europe...
defense guns were converted to railroad guns. two pieces in Oulu, Finland SalpaLine Museum, Miehikkälä, Finland The Artillery Museum of Finland, Hämeenlinna...
or hundreds of kilometres in front of the main Finnish line of fortifications, the SalpaLine. However, the war had exhausted Finnish resources and it...
of a freight-only railway line from Kemijärvi. In 2006, the Finnish Rail Administration announced proposals to close the line. The railway formerly extended...
Line was the main defense station and military fortification built by the Finns after the Winter War of 1940–1941 on the border of Hanko. This line was...
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Finland began constructing the SalpaLine to fortify the new border, replacing the Mannerheim Line fortifications. The SalpaLine artillery included six 152/45...
Armistice, naval artillery was brought to Lemi to create part of the SalpaLine. From the Käkisalmi region the Vahtiniemi battery was transferred to Kärmeniemi...
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