Links
this section will be updated on regular
basis!
Winter War and Finland
- Battles
of Winter War Sami Korhonen's excellent and very informative page
on all aspects of the Winter War
- Raattee
Gate, Museum of Suomussalmi battle
- Mannerheim,
page dedicated to the famous leader of the Finnish nation
- Taipale
sector, page dedicated to famous battlefield of Winter War
- Salpa
line - defense line built along the new border of Finalnd and Soviet
Union in 1940 - 1941 and now serving a museum.
- Finland
at war - Henric Edwards' nice page with information on both Winter
War and Continuation War.
- Pictures
From Wars During Finlandīs Independence - excellent collection
of pictures from fronts of Independence war, Winter War, Continuation War
and Lappland War. Comments in Finnish and English.
- Piece
of Finnish history - project on Wars of Finland. Great section on Lotta
Svaerd and photogallery. In Finnish.
- Ilomantsi
in war - excellent pages on military operations in Ilomantsi, Finland,
during both Winter War and battles of 1944. In Finnish, English, list of fallen
Red Army soldiers in Russian NEW
World War Two, military history
- Russian
Battlefield Valery Potapov's and Artem Drabkin's excellent page
on the Russian armor, artillery of WWII, memories of Russian veterans and
more.
- Military
Historical Forum 2, Russian discussion forum on all aspects of
military history
- RKKA
- web page on history of Red Army, lots of information
- Nuts
and Bolts - great collection of links by Peter de Wolf, links on
fortification, reenactment, general military history.
- The
War Room Bookshop -
books about WWII, repro posters from many countries that took part in WWII.
- War
in the Arctic - nice page about battlefields in the north of Russia,
Finland, Sweden and Norway. A lot of information and pictures.
- Paperless
Archives World War II Titles
Paperless Archives World War II titles cover Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower
presidential papers, and material on Winston Churchill, Hitler, Berlin, Cold
War Beginnings, Pearl Harbor, Tokyo Rose, Invasion of Japan plans, A-Bomb
development and usage & more.
Karelian Isthmus
- Karelian
fortified region, KaUR - a new page dedicated solely to the Soviet fortifications
built on border with Finland in 1920s - 1930s and then upgraded in 1950s.
In Russian only.
- Terijoki
- webpage about reosrt town Terijoki, now Zelenogorsk. In English and Russian
- Karelian
Rampart - official volunteer search party, which is excavating the battlefields
and organizes official funerals for soldiers who had not yet been buried
- Mikhail
Levin's page, with some detailed descriptions of how to get to
some of Mannerheim Line bunkers. In Russian only
- Saint-Petersbrug
area guide - how to get there guide, geography, history, fortification,
Russo-Finnish relations. All in Russian.
- Karelian
Isthmus - descriptions of some of the important monuments of Karelian
Isthmus, including Finnish churches and graves of Red Army soldiers, by Sergei
Kurilov, in Russian.
- Vyborg
Information Gateway - official page of city of Vyborg. In English
and Finnish.
- Kuolemajarvi
- page dedicated to the Finnish Kuolemajarvi parish in the days when it belonged
to Finland, in Finnish.
- Luovutettu
Karjala - page
on history of Finnish territorries that were given to Soviet Union after WWII.
In Finnish.
- Karelian
Isthmus History society - a group of enthusiasts that studies all
aspects of Karelian Isthmus history for over 10 years. This page was inspired
by their efforts.
Fortifications
- World
War II pillboxes and Invasion defences in UK - great site that
covers fortifications built in England in early days of WWII against possible
German invasion.
- German
Fortifications in Eastern Prussia - a site about German system
of fortification that is now located in Poland. Language - Polish
- Eastern
Wall - a great page about German pre-WWII fortifications on its eastern
borders. In German.
- Atlantic
Wall - nice pages about famous defensive line
- Images
of Atlantic Wall - a picture gallery of fortifications of Atlantic Wall
- Bunker
Art - a very nice page dedicated to pictures, signs, camouflage
and numbering of German concrete bunkers of Atlantic wall.
- Fortresses
- site dedicated to history of fortification in Russia from ancient days to
the 20th century. In Russian
- Kovno
Fortress and Orthodox temples of Kaunas - a nice page that tells
forgotten story of Kovno fortress of WWI. Nice pictures. In Russian
- Northern
Fortress, an excellent page by Alexey Goss about fortifications
around Saint-Petersburg. Beautiful pictures of Mannerheim Line bunkers, elegant
design. Now available both in Russian and English.
- Fortress
of Rohrbach - a nice page about French WWI-era fortifications on
eastern border of France. In French, English and German
- Infantry
Block K-5 - museum of Czech fortification 1935 - 1938. In Czech language.
- New
Age Fortification - a magazine about fortification history in Europe.
In English and Czech languages.
- Viapori
- pages that cover fortifications around Helsinki which date back to the
times of the Russian Empire. In English, Finnish and German.
- Stalin
Line pages page by Konstantin
Zolotyh about Stalin Line. in Russian
- Gothic
Line pages dedicated
to German WWII fortifications between Florence and Bologna, Italy NEW
Reenactment of WWII
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Bair Irincheev 2001 - 2004