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Karelian Isthmus

noun

  1. a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.


Karelian Isthmus

noun

  1. a strip of land, now in Russia, between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga: annexed by the former Soviet Union after the Russo-Finnish War (1939–40)
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Example Sentences

In 1941, as he watched belligerent Soviet armies massing across the Karelian isthmus, Mannerheim decided that the only way to save Finland from Stalin was to ally himself with Nazi Germany.

From the north Finns and Germans pressed down the Karelian Isthmus to within 50 miles of the city.

The Finns must first be pushed out of the Karelian Isthmus and preferably out of the war.

Although they lost Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus to the Finns last week and were driven out of Tallinn in Estonia by the Germans, the Russians still held Leningrad and denied that the railroad to Moscow had been cut as Berlin claimed.

He withdrew 15 divisions from the Karelian Isthmus.

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