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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. Two Estonians are first to swim across Gulf of Finland by AFP / AFP Global Edition 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. Stalin's big-fleet program by Hauner, Milan L. / Naval War College Review 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. Helsinki: snapshots in time by McRae, Kenneth / Inroads: A Journal of Opinion			Poretskii, Platon Sergeevich Porfirii Bakhmetev Porfirii Chanchibadze Porfirii Denisovich Martynovich Porfirii Georgievich Chanchibadze Porfirii Ivanovich Bakhmetev Porfirii Ivanovich Voinaralskii Porfirii Martynovich Porfirii Nikitich Krylov Porfirii Voinaralskii Porfirio Diaz Porfirio Díaz Porgy Pori Pori International Jazz Festival Poriadnaia Zapis poriaz Porifera poriferan Porik, Vasilii Porik, Vasilii Vasilevich Porirua Porjus pork Porkhov Porkkala Porkkala Peninsula Porlezzina Porlock Porneius porno Pornocracy Pornography porocyte Porofors Porogamy Porolon poromeric material Poronai Poronaisk Poronin Poronin 1913 Meeting of the Central Committee of the RSDLP with Party pororoca Póros Poroscopy Poroshin, Semen Poroshin, Semen Andreevich Poroshkovaia Metallurgiia porosimeter porosis Porosity			Porkchops porked porked porked porked porked out porked out porked out porker porker porker porkers porkers Porket porkfish porkholt Porkhov porkier porkies porkiest porkiness porking porking porking porking porking out porking out porking out Porkistan Porkistan Porkkala Porkkala Peninsula Porkling porklings porkpie porkpie hat porks porks porks porks porks out porks out porks out Porkwood porky porky-pie porky-pies PORLA Porlamar, Venezuela - Gral Santiago Marino Porlezzina Porlock PORM porn porn porn porn Porn Addiction Porn industry Porn industry porn merchant porn mode

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