Russian regions: The exhibition “Cartography of Vyborg and the Vyborg region of the XVII-XX centuries” in the Leningrad region

The Vyborg Castle hosts the (the Leningrad region) hosts the exhibition “Cartography of Vyborg and the Vyborg Province of the XVII-XX centuries” which is based on documents of the Leningrad Regional State Archive.

According to the press service of the Governor and the government of the Leningrad region, the collection “Maps, plans and drawings of Vyborg, the Vyborg, Mikkelsky and Kuopiosky provinces” is a collection of one of the oldest in archive collections. It includes maps of Finland, Vyborg and Karelian Isthmus from 1643 to 1944, as well as maps and plans of related to the Vyborg province of the grand Duchy of Finland. The exhibition features maps of the Russian Empire from 1798 to 1917.

Most cartographic documents are published in Swedish and Finnish. Some of them are on display for the first time, including the ancient topographic maps of the Swedish cartographer, royal surveyor Eric Nilsson Aspegren. In the first half of the XVII century he made detailed maps and settlements on the Karelian Isthmus, starting from the mouth of the Neva River.

The exhibition also features:

- Maps of Vyborg and fortifications of the city during the Swedish rule;

- Maps of the period after Peter conquests - the construction of new fortifications fortress;

- Projects of bridges connecting the main fortress and the city;

- Map new quarters after the general reconstruction of the city;

- The first maps of Finland and the Vyborg province, issued in the form of books, guidebooks for tourists and travelers;

- Unique designs and drawings of the tombstones and sculptures in the period from 1919 to 1938, set in the town cemetery in the town Sorvali and Ristimäki.

Maps of old Vyborg allow you seeing how the appearance of the city and its environs since the impalement of his fortress wall of the Kremlin with the type of battle towers to a relatively modern of its kind in the 1930s changed. On the maps of Finland for the years 1938-1940 it can be seen as the adjusted state border on the Karelian Isthmus between the USSR and Finland during the Russo-Finnish War. The exhibition takes visitors up to January 20, 2015.