When Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library was completed in 1935, the land it sat on was Finnish. A few years later, after World War II, Vyborg and the surrounding Karelian region became part of the ...

But with the outbreak of World War II, the medieval fortress situated in the much-contested town of Vyborg—then under Finnish control, but soon ceded to the Soviets (first at the Russo-Finnish ...

After the World War II many buildings, including the Old Cathedral, were left standing in gloomy ruins. For the last half-century Vyborg has been left to dilapidate. Old buildings malinger ...