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{{Short description|Bay in the Gulf of Finland}}
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[[File:Vyborg June2012 View from Olaf Tower 02.jpg|thumb|View of the Northern harbor of the Vyborg Bay]]
'''Vyborg Bay''' ({{Langx|ru|Выборгский залив}}; {{Langx|fi|Viipurinlahti}}; {{Langx|sv|Viborgska viken}}) is a deep inlet running northeastward near the eastern end of [[Gulf of Finland]] in the [[Baltic Sea]]. The city of [[Vyborg]] is located near the head of the gulf.

The [[Monrepos Park]] is considered a jewel of the bay and a major draw for tourists. Since the mid-19th century, the bay has been connected by the [[Saimaa Canal]] to the lake [[Saimaa]] in [[Finland]].

In 1790, the bay was the scene of one of the [[Largest naval battle in history|largest naval battles in history]], the [[Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790)|Battle of Vyborg Bay]], with a total of 498 Russian and Swedish ships.

The end of the bay is called [[Zashchitnaya Bay]] ({{Langx|ru|бухта Защитная}}, {{Langx|fi|Suomenvedenpohja}}. In the Middle Ages, the river 
[[Vuoksi]] had an outlet there, which however dried up little by little due to [[post-glacial rebound]] and was left completely dry in 1857 when the  Kiviniemi rapids in [[Losevo, Leningrad Oblast|Losevo]] ({{langx|ru|Лосево}}, {{langx|fi|Kiviniemi}}), [[Karelian isthmus]] were formed and the [[Burnaya River]] became the main outlet of Vuoksa.

[[Lodochnyy Island]] lies in the middle of the bay, between Vyborg and [[Vysotsk]].

==See also==
*[[Lokhaniemi]]

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[[Category:Bays of the Baltic Sea]]
[[Category:Gulf of Finland]]
[[Category:Vyborg]]
[[Category:Karelian Isthmus]]
[[Category:Bays of Leningrad Oblast]]

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