DISTRICT ZONING OF NEW TERRITORIES  OF KARELIAN-FINNISH UNION REPUBLIC AND LENINGRAD REGION IN 1940 Cover Image

РАЙОНИРОВАНИЕ НОВЫХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ КАРЕЛО-ФИНСКОЙ ССР И ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ В 1940 ГОДУ
DISTRICT ZONING OF NEW TERRITORIES OF KARELIAN-FINNISH UNION REPUBLIC AND LENINGRAD REGION IN 1940

Author(s): G. V. Suzi
Subject(s): History
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: boundary; the Karelian Isthmus and Northern Ladoga area; administrative-territorial structure

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of administrative zoning conducted on the former Finnish territories – the Karelian Isthmus and the Northern Ladoga area, which were annexed by the Soviet Union after the end of the Winter War. The former administrative structure, the intrinsic to Finish counties, was generally preserved on the newly zoned areas of Karelian-Finnish Union Republic. No signifi-cant changes were needed to convert the annexed Finnish counties into Soviet districts. Regretfully, new administrative boundaries between KFSSR and the Leningrad region on the territory of Karelian Isthmus disrupted its unity and complicated the process of district zoning on the territories of Leningrad region.