Murmansk Finns or Kola Finns (Finnish: Muurmanninsuomalaiset, Kuolansuomalaiset) are a group of Finns who live or lived in Murmansk Oblast. They came...
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4% carry U5. Siberian Finns Kola Norwegians Karelians Tornedalians Skogfinner Sweden Finns Finland-Swedes Kvens Murmansk Finns Paluumuutto Suomeen TE-palvelut...
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White-dominated Northern Finland to Soviet Russia and of some Finns working on the Murmansk Railroad. The Legion, along with British troops, fought off...
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city of Murmansk, now home to 307,257 (2010 Russian census), or nearly 40% of the oblast's population. Many Finns also immigrated to Murmansk during the...
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Anti-Finnish sentiment (redirect from Discrimination against Finns)
the word. Ingrian Finns were heavily persecuted in Soviet Russia, including being subject to forced deportations. 8,000–25,000 Finns were killed during...
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Operation Silver Fox (redirect from German attack on Murmansk)
Germans and Finns had taken some ground at both fronts, but overall the operation failed in terms of its strategic intentions, as neither Murmansk nor the...
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Agnessa Haikara (category People from Murmansk)
for her documentary book about Murmansk Finns and Kola Norwegians repressed in the Soviet Union. She was born in Murmansk to a family of Finnish origin...
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advance impossible, and only withdrawal of the defending Red Finns allowed the White Finns to advance a small distance until the troops again mutinied...
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especially the Murmansk Finns were heavily persecuted and the Finnish population almost completely perished in the area. 3,000 Finns were executed in...
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Crimean Karaites Cubans Czechs Dungans Estonians Setos Finns Ingrian Finns Murmansk Finns Siberian Finns French Gagauz Georgians Adjarians Ingiloy Laz Mingrelians...
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Crimean Karaites Cubans Czechs Dungans Estonians Setos Finns Ingrian Finns Murmansk Finns Siberian Finns French Gagauz Georgians Adjarians Ingiloy Laz Mingrelians...
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Kola Norwegians (category Murmansk Oblast)
Russo-Norwegian pidgin Pomors, coastal Russian settlers Bjarmaland Murmansk Finns "СОСТАВ ГРУППЫ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ "ЛИЦА, УКАЗАВШИЕ ДРУГИЕ ОТВЕТЫ О НАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ...
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Crimean Karaites Cubans Czechs Dungans Estonians Setos Finns Ingrian Finns Murmansk Finns Siberian Finns French Gagauz Georgians Adjarians Ingiloy Laz Mingrelians...
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to capture Murmansk or to cut the Kirov (Murmansk) Railway. The Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in June and August 1944 drove the Finns from most...
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Sweden, Norway Forest Finns, Tornedalians, Ingrian Finns (including Siberian Finns (including Korlaks), Savonians, Tavastians, Finns proper, Ostrobothnians...
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Operation Arctic Fox (category History of Murmansk Oblast)
the canal. On 7 August, the Finns captured Kestenga after fierce fighting. Reacting to the Finnish advance on the Murmansk railway, the Soviets transferred...
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Kola Peninsula (redirect from Murmansk Peninsula)
largest peninsulas of Europe. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely inside the Arctic Circle and is bordered...
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North Russia intervention (category Murmansk)
creating fears they might try to capture the Murmansk–Petrograd railroad, the strategic port of Murmansk and possibly even the city of Arkhangelsk. It...
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Yona, Russia (redirect from Yona, Murmansk Oblast)
Yona (Russian: Ёна) is a rural locality (a selo) in Kovdorsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located beyond the Arctic Circle at a height of 156 meters...
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the population and Finns 2%; by the census of 1959, Karelians were 13% and Finns 4%. Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast, p. 31...
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Greater Finland (category Baltic Finns)
area was enhanced by some migration of Ingrian Finns, and by the Great Depression. Gylling encouraged Finns in North America to flee to the Karelian ASSR...
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took part in the armed conflicts mentioned below. Viena expedition (1918) Murmansk Legion Petsamo expeditions (1918 and 1920) Estonian War of Independence...
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mines there from USSR. In June 1941 the corps attacked from Petsamo to Murmansk in Operation Platinum Fox (German: Unternehmen Platinfuchs). The attack...
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Molotov's offer of a mutual assistance pact, which the Finns immediately refused. To the Finns' surprise, Molotov dropped the offer and instead proposed...
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Severomorsk. Murmansk Finns Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast, pp. 34-35 Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast, p. 67...
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south, via Lake Onega to the White Sea in the north. The importance of the Murmansk railway, built in 1916, led the Soviet delegation to reject the Finnish...
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August Wesley (section In the Murmansk Legion)
Finnish Civil War. He later served as a lieutenant in the British organized Murmansk Legion and the Estonian Army. August Anselm Wesslin was born in the industrial...
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Siege of Leningrad (section Soviet deportation of civilians with enemy nations ethnic origin – Germans and Finns)
respective goals, the Finns halted their advance and started moving troops to East Karelia. For the next three years, the Finns did little to contribute...
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Keväjärvi, Nellim in the municipality of Inari, at several places in the Murmansk Oblast and in the village of Neiden in the municipality of Sør-Varanger...
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