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Porkkala (pôrk`kälä), small, strategic peninsula, Southern Finland prov., in the Gulf of Finland, near Helsinki. Under the Soviet-Finnish armistice of 1944, Finland leased this area to the USSR for 50 years, for use as a naval base. The USSR returned it to Finland in 1956.
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No references found | Nopponen took 19 hours and 13 minutes to cover the 55 kilometres (34 miles) from the Finnish port of Porkkala to the Estonian village of Suurupi, and Vehm about three hours more. Petersburg, at the narrowest section of the Gulf of Finland, between Nargen (off Reval) and Porkkala, would be protected by advanced minefields, by coastal artillery on either shore, and by the main Baltic battle fleet, in a central position east of the island of Hogland. The Soviet naval base at Porkkala, about 10 miles west of the city, had been returned to Finland early as a gesture of Soviet friendship, but it remained empty, undeveloped, a sombre memento of Soviet power. |
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