Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast

Vyborgsky District ( _ru. Вы́боргский райо́н) is a district ("raion") of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on Karelian Isthmus, established in 1940 when the territory had been ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union by Moscow Peace Treaty as a result of the Winter War. The area of the district is 7,350.9 km². Its administrative center is the town of Vyborg (which is administratively not a part of the district). District's population: ru-census|p02=113748|p89=108571

Administratively, the district comprises four towns (Kamennogorsk, Primorsk, Svetogorsk, Vysotsk), three urban-type settlements (Lesogorsky, Roshchino, Sovetsky), and twenty-two volosts (Bolshepolskaya, Borodinskaya, Gavrilovskaya, Glebychevskaya, Goncharovskaya, Gvardeyskaya, Kirillovskaya, Kondratyevskaya, Krasnodolinskaya, Krasnoselskaya, Krasnosokolskaya, Leninskaya, Losevskaya, Pervomayskaya, Polyanskaya, Seleznyovskaya, Sokolinskaya, Tokarevskaya, Tsvelodubskaya, Vozrozhdenskaya, Yermilovskaya, and Zhitkovskaya). [ _ru. Постановление №10 главы администрации Ленинградской области от 18 января 1994 г. "Об изменениях административно-территориального устройства районов Ленинградской области". (Resolution of the Head of Leningrad Oblast #10 of January 18, 1994 "On Changes of the Administrative and Territorial Structure of the Districts of Leningrad Oblast")]

A 20-35 km wide stretch of land in the district to the west of the Vyborg–Hiitola railway, as well as the islands and shores of the Gulf of Vyborg, belong to the strictly guarded zone of the border control. In 1993 - 2006 formally the zone was 5km wide, although in reality it has always been much wider. Visiting it is forbidden without a permit issued by the FSB (KGB in the time of the Soviet Union).

ee also

*Viipuri province

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