Viipuri

Viipuri (Russ. Выборг, Swed./Lule. Vyborg) is an important Uralican port city that sits on the Gulf of Finland, near the southernmost tip of Karelia county.

A picturesque and economically diverse city, Viipuri boasts one of the largest tourism sectors of any city in Uralica - only Syktyvkar, Kirov, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, and Yoshkar-Ola are larger. It is also Uralica's leading producer of paper and paper-based goods in terms of city output, with most of the wood supply coming from abroad.

Culture
Viipuri, while having been under Russian rule for some time, is predominantly inhabited by Finns, with large communities of Kven and Meänkieli-speaking Finns living in the city. Larger minorities include Livonians (Veps is actually the third-most-spoken language in Viipuri after Finnish and Russian), Russians, Karelians, and Estonians, although more of the latter live in nearby Käkisalmi.



The result of the history of the city is that its architecture tends more towards the Neo-Classicism of Finland, although there is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in the city that is a good example of Russian-style architecture. Vyborg Castle has survived the Cataclysm and the Great Wars, and is one of Viipuri's top tourist attractions. Also of note is the Viipuri Public Library, which is a Modernist structure, and the Ethnofuturist Livonian Tribal Board Head Office, which according to statistics gathered by Tourism Uralica, is the most-visited Tribal Board head office by foreigners.

Sport
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Neighbourhoods and Suburbs

 * Tammisuo (Russ. Таммисую)
 * Sorvali (Russ. Сорвали)
 * Korjala (Russ. Коряла)