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'''Polyany''' ({{langx|ru|Поля́ны}}; {{langx|fi|Uusikirkko (Kirkkojärvi)}} Swedish: Nykyrka) is a [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|settlement]] in [[Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast|Vyborgsky District]] of [[Leningrad Oblast]], [[Russia]], on the [[Karelian Isthmus]]. Before the [[Winter War]] and [[Continuation War]], so until September 1944, it was the administrative center of the Uusikirkko municipality of the [[Viipuri province]] of Finland.

The Finnish names mean "New Church (Church Lake)" and the Swedish name also means "New Church". [[Mikael Agricola]] died there on return from the negotiations for the [[Treaty of Novgorod (1557)]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Heininen|first=Simo|author2=Heikkilä, Markku|title=Kirchengeschichte Finnlands|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|date=2002|isbn=3-525-55444-3|language=German|page=70}}</ref>

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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100210123233/http://kannas.nm.ru/vyborg_district3.htm History of Polyany] {{in lang|ru}}

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[[Category:Rural localities in Leningrad Oblast]]
[[Category:Karelian Isthmus]]


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