Karjalaan jääneiden vainajien muistokivi
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- Unknown
- Category
- Memorial
- Location accuracy
- Precise location
A memorial related to the wars.
Access and getting there
Pyhtään kirkon kirkkotarha, Harjuntie 11. Muistopaikka — käyttäydy kunnioittavasti.
Related photographs
Photographs of the same subject from the same municipality. They do not show this site — each caption says what it actually shows.
What happened here
Battles, troop movements and military operations recorded near this site.
10 April 1918 – 5 May 1918
Battle of Ahvenkoski
Battle · Saksan interventio Suomen sisällissodassa · 4,6 km
The Battle of Ahvenkoski was fought during the Finnish Civil War between 10 April and 5 May 1918 at Ahvenkoski (Swedish: Abborfors; lit. 'perch rapids'), Finland between the German Empire and the Red Guards (Finnish: punakaartit) of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, more commonly known as Red Finland. For most of the battle both sides occupied trenches along the Kymi river. Ahvenkoski and the surrounding Kymi valley region were the last strongholds of the Reds. The battle ended with the surrender of the last of the Red Guards on 5 May, which ended the war with White Finland and Germany defeating Red Finland.
== German campaign begins == The German Empire supported White Finland, the precursor of the modern Finnish state, during the civil war against Red Finland and its paramilitary army, the Red Guards. Thus, Germany launched a military campaign in southeast Finland on 7 April 1918 with the landing of Detachment Brandenstein (German: Abteilung-Brandenstein) in Loviisa. Their goal was to take the coastal town of Kotka situated 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Loviisa, then move north along the vital Saint Petersburg railway to the railway junction of Kouvola. The next morning, a 300-soldier reconnaissance unit reached the outskirts of Kotka, but was stopped in the Battle of Kyminlinna. As the Germans waited for reinforcements, they tapped enemy telephone lines and mistakenly believed that the Red Guards had a reserve of 10,000–30,000 soldiers heading to Kotka from the northern Kymi valley region. In reality the Reds were strengthened by only 450 men. The German unit retreated to Ahvenkoski, 20 km (12 mi) east of Kotka. As they were soon followed by the Reds, they moved 8 km (5.0 mi) further west, where they dug into defensive positions by the Taasianjoki river. The Reds did not advance past Ahvenkoski, where they occupied 18th-century fortifications by the Kymi river. They were soon reinforced by units who had retreated from the Karelian front.
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Location accuracy: Precise location
Verification: 2026-07-31 (remote)
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