The most interesting islands of the Gulf of Finland

There are many islands in the Gulf of Finland. However, only a few St. Petersburgers will be able to name any islands, except for the island of Kotlin, on which Kronshtadt is located. At the same time, there are very interesting and beautiful islands. In this material, we will introduce you to some of them.

1. The island of Hogland.
   This small granite island, located in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, is one of the most famous islands of the Gulf of Finland.
   Here on the island found stone Age sites and sacred objects, whose age is 5-7 thousand years BC.
   On the island in 1900, Popov conducted the first practical radio communication sessions - to service the rescue expedition to remove the battleship General Admiral Apraksin from the rocks.
   Before the revolution, Hogland was one of the most popular places for yachting trips, although the island is considered one of the most dangerous places in the Baltic for navigation, the locals have long been considered excellent sailors and they were willingly employed by sailors for sailing ships.

2. Transundsky (Vysotsky) archipelago.
   The island is located in the Vyborg Bay, for a long time it was known only to connoisseurs of history and radio amateurs. In the middle of the XIX century, Russian fortifications were erected here, from the 1917th century up to the Second World War the Finnish artillery battery was located. At the turn of the XIX - XX centuries, on the islands of the archipelago, Alexander Popov tested his wireless telegraph, and from 1963 to 2012 Maly Vysotsky Island was rented from Finland. During this period, specialized expeditions to Maly Vysotsky, which did not belong to Finland, were popular with radio amateurs, but temporarily it did not belong to Russia either, and a special callsign for communication sessions was used.

3. Sommers.
   This rocky island Peter the Great gave his fool Yan Lakoste along with the mocking title of "Samoyed king." It is located in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland. After this gift, the jester began to appear at balls in a tall tin crown. After the death of the king, Lacoste lost his possessions, as it turned out that to Peter's letter of granting the island, instead of printing was attached ... ruble.
   In June 1942 on the Sommers, captured by Finnish troops, was unreasonably landed naval landing. Desperate battle lasted three days. Of the one and a half thousand red-fleet men who landed on this piece of land, no one survived. The island was liberated only after Finland left the war in 1944.

4. Island Powerful.
   It's a pretty big island. Until 1917, the island was densely populated, a fleet of 80 ships, carrying out transportation between Russia, Finland and Sweden, was based here. After Finland gained independence, the volume of traffic fell sharply, and the island became one of the points of contraband. Now on the island there are only a small border guard station with a radio technical post and a post for covering the surface and underwater situation of the Leningrad naval base.

5. Big Tyuters and Small Tyuters.
   Two islands are in the central part of the Gulf of Finland. The Big Tyuters was known for a long time as an "island of death", as during the Second World War the Germans mined it. There were several attempts to clear the island, but only the last seventh was successful. In 2005, Russian and Swedish specialists neutralized more than 30 thousand explosive items. On both islands there are lighthouses, service personnel are the only inhabitants of the islands. At the Maly Tyuters there is a ringed seal.

6. Isle of Lysias.
   One of the most tranquil and green islands, lost in the Klyuchevskaya Bay of the Vyborg District. Here there are beautiful forests with a bunch of mushrooms and berries, the cleanest banks along which all kinds of fish swim and spawn. And since there are no reserve restrictions, the island is a popular place for recreation, but only the locals are increasingly complaining about poachers and uncultured tourists.

7. Virgin Islands.
   In the Gulf of Finland there are Virgin Islands. Especially interesting is South Virginia, where there is a mysterious round maze of pebbles, built up by ancient people. This labyrinth is called Paris: some say that in honor of the entangled Parisian streets, others - that this name comes from the Swedish word Paris, that is, the church parish, and reflects the sacred essence of this place.

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