Vahviala

Yashino () is a

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(a settlement) in

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, located on the

Karelian Isthmus The Karelian Isthmus (; ; ) is the approximately stretch of land situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva. Its northwestern boundary is a line from the Bay of Vyborg to the we ...

. Before the

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and during the

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, it was the center of the Vahviala municipality in the

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. Its name was changed in 1948 from Vahviala to Yashino. Rural localities in Leningrad Oblast Karelian Isthmus {{LeningradOblast-geo-stub