Vahviala
Yashino is a rural locality in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus. Before the Winter War and during the Continuation War, it was the center of the Vahviala municipality in the Viipuri Province of Finland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 144 residents
- Description: posyolok in Seleznyovskoye rural settlement, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Usadishche”, “Usadishche, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast”, “Vakhviala”, “Yashino”, and “Yashino, Leningrad Oblast”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Usadishche.
Usadishche
Hamlet
Usadishche was formerly a rural locality on Karelian Isthmus, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, near the Russia–Finland border. Until the Winter War and Continuation War, it had been part of the Vahviala municipality of the Viipuri Province of Finland, partially lost to the Soviet Union in 1944.
Vahviala
- Categories: posyolok, former municipality of Finland, and locality
- Location: Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
60.7901° or 60° 47′ 24″ northLongitude
28.43624° or 28° 26′ 11″ eastPopulation
144Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)Open location code
9GGCQCRP+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 1327565015OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
468760Wikidata ID
Q771044
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Ukrainian—“Vahviala” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Яшино”
- Dutch: “Jasjino (Leningradskaja oblast)”
- Dutch: “Yashino, Leningrad Oblast”
- Finnish: “Vahviala”
- German: “Jaschino”
- German: “Ussadischtsche”
- German: “Ussadistsche”
- German: “Vahviala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jasjino”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vahviala”
- Norwegian: “Jasjino”
- Norwegian: “Jasjtsjino”
- Norwegian: “Vahviala”
- Russian: “Яшино (Ленинградская область)”
- Russian: “Яшино”
- Swedish: “Vahviala”
- Ukrainian: “Яшино (Ленінградська область)”
- Ukrainian: “Яшино”
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