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Vyborg, a town and the administrative center of Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, lies on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Vyborg Bay, 130km to the northwest of St. Petersburg and 38km south of Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland. Population:Located in the boundary zone between the East Slavic/Russian and Finnish worlds, the town has changed hands several times in history, most recently in 1944 when the Soviet Union retook it from Finland during World War II.The city hosts the Russian end of the 1222km Nord Stream gas pipeline, laid in 2011 and operated by a consortium led by Russia's Gazprom state hydrocarbons enterprise to pump 55e9m3 of natural gas a year under the Baltic to Greifswald, Germany.
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