Wyborg
Финский модерн и Аалто
Выборг начала двадцатого века строили как северную столицу: гранитные дворцы с героями «Калевалы», совы и пеликаны на фасадах и библиотека, с которой начался мировой модернизм Аалто.
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Vyborg Library
A pioneering masterpiece of 20th-century functionalist architecture by Alvar Aalto.
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Pietinen Palace
Furniture magnate Matti Pietinen greeted rail passengers with this lavish 1907–1908 apartment and commercial palace, complete with elevators, hot water and a sculpted entrance guarded by stone lions. Its design united work by Bertel Jung, Oscar Bomanson and Armas Lindgren, turning a speculative building opposite the station into a manifesto of Finnish national romanticism.
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Vyborg Telephone Station
Ullberg's 1922 telephone exchange on Mira Street. The lost wing is part of this building's story.
Theater & Kultur
Former Viipuri Music Institute and Otso House
Behind this commercial facade, Boris Sirpo's music school grew into one of Finland's most important conservatories and made 1920s–1930s Viipuri a serious rival to Helsinki's concert life. During the Winter War, caretaker Hulda Puustell helped pack more than 10,000 scores into crates; the rescued library eventually followed the evacuated institute to Lahti.
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Hackman and Co House in Vyborg
The Hackman and Co House, also known as the 'Granite Palace', is a notable example of national romantic architecture in Vyborg.
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Bank of the Nordic Countries Building
Its original Swedish and Finnish inscriptions advertised the multilingual commercial world of imperial-era Vyborg, while the banking hall was designed almost like a temple with the vault occupying the place of an altar. Since 1945 the former financial palace has housed a public library, turning a monument to private capital into a Soviet and Russian repository of books.
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House with Pelicans
Decorative pelicans on the façade turn an otherwise sober historic building into one of Vyborg's popular architectural puzzles.
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House with Owls
Crowned owls, lyres and stylized plants decorate this 1909 national-romantic apartment house. Nicholas Roerich and his family lived here from October 1918 to May 1919, and the artist produced numerous works during this politically uncertain pause between Russia and his later life abroad.
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Dom-utyug, Viborg
A unique architectural landmark known as the 'Witch's House' or 'Iron House' in Vyborg.
