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    RP78RK - Petrozavodsk - Russia

    RP78RK Special Memorial station will be active from Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia, 1 - 9 May 2023, commemorating 78th Anniversary of the Victory in Second World War.
    QRV on HF Bands.
    QSL via R1NU.
    The Karelian Front was created in August 1941 when Northern Front was split into Karelian Front and Leningrad Front to take account of the different military developments and requirements on the Leningrad approaches versus those along the Finnish border to the Arctic. It remained in existence until the end of the war.
    The front covered the sector north of Lake Ladoga and the Svir River to the Arctic Coast near Murmansk. It was involved in combat with both Finnish and German forces along the Soviet-Finnish border. The front between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega was split off to the independent 7th Army during the static phase of the war.

    During 1944, the Karelian Front participated with the Leningrad Front in the final offensive against Finland which led to the Soviet-Finnish armistice. In October 1944 the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation was conducted along the front, capturing some parts of northern Finland and liberating the easternmost parts of the Norwegian Finnmark province from German occupation.


    RP78RK Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia
    73 Al 4L5A
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