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Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
Vyborg may also refer to:
- Vyborg railway station, a railway station in Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Vyborg, former name of the Finnish coastal defence ship Väinämöinen
- Vyborg, name of a Soviet ship sunk by the Finnish submarine Vesikko in 1941.
- Vyborg HVDC scheme, a system of electricity transmission
- Vyborg (airline), a former airline based in St. Petersburg, Russia
Vyborg ( Russian Cyrillic: Выборг , [vi:puri], [], , ) is a town and the administrative center of Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Vyborg Bay, to the northwest of St. Petersburg and south of Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland. Population:
The town lies in the boundary zone between the East Slavic/Russian and Finnish worlds and has changed hands several times in history, most ultimately in 1944 when it was retaken by the Soviet Union from Finland during World War II.
The city hosts the Russian end of the 1,222 km Nord Stream gas pipeline, laid in 2011 and operated by a consortium led by Russia's Gazprom state hydrocarbons enterprise to pump 55 billion m³ of natural gas a year under the Baltic to Greifswald, Germany.
North West Aviation Transport Company Vyborg was an airline based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, operating chartered passenger flights out of Pulkovo Airport. The company was founded in 2002 and operated a fleet of two Ilyushin Il-114 aircraft, a type of which only 20 have been built. In July 2010, Vyborg was shut down. Its airline license was passed to Solaris Airlines.
At least three ships and one ship class of the Imperial Russian Navy have been named Vyborg, after the successful siege of Vyborg in 1710.
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A class of four 50-gun ships built during the Great Northern War.
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50-gun ship that had to be destroyed after running aground in 1712
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54-gun ship scrapped after 1739
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74-gun ship later converted to steam power; stricken in 1863