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Viipuri

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Viipuri: see Vyborg Vyborg , Finnish Viipuri, Swed. Viborg, city (1989 pop. 81,000), NW European Russia, NW of St. Petersburg and near the Finnish border, on Vyborg Bay and the Gulf of Finland. A Baltic port and railroad junction, it is an export center for lumber.
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initiated in 2000, takes as its starting point that city's municipal library, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1927 and completed in 1935, symbolizing the modernist aspirations of a newly independent Finnish state (Vyborg, then Finland's second largest city, was called Viipuri at the time, changing names when annexed by the Soviets in 1944).
Wright is represented by 'the purest Usonian' house, the Rosenbaum of 1939, and Aalto by the Viipuri Library.
The international architectural community has for a long time been worried about the fate of Aalto's Viipuri library.
 
 
 
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