Karelian Isthmus

American  

noun

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

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Karelian Isthmus British  

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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Karelian Isthmus

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

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After two weeks of holding off repeated thrusts at their Mannerheim defenses in the Karelian Isthmus, the Finns last week began to retake ground previously lost to the Russians.

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The Finns pressed down the Karelian Isthmus from the north, leaving the Russians only Lake Ladoga as a link with the rest of the Soviet Union.

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Retired from active service, he still headed the national defense council which built a defense-in-depth system across the Karelian Isthmus.

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On the Karelian Isthmus Russian soldiers were still holding off Finnish assaults.

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