Varisniemi

Period: moderni
Category: Fortification
Location accuracy: Approximate area

A defensive work recorded in the Finnish Heritage Agency's cultural environment register. Structures: gun emplacements.

Safety

Linnoitusrakenteissa voi olla sortumavaara, avoimia aukkoja ja teräviä rakenteita. Älä laskeudu rakenteisiin ja pysy näkyvillä poluilla.

Land ownership and access restrictions

Kohde voi sijaita yksityisellä maalla. Noudata jokamiehenoikeuksia, älä vahingoita rakenteita äläkä kaiva maaperää.

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.

22 June 1941 – 2 December 1941
Battle of Hanko
Battle · jatkosota · 3,0 km
The Battle of Hanko (also known as the Hanko front or the siege of Hanko) was a lengthy series of small battles fought on Hanko Peninsula during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union in the second half of 1941. As both sides were eager to avoid a major, costly ground battle, fighting took the form of trench warfare, with artillery exchanges, sniping, patrol clashes, and small amphibious operations performed in the surrounding archipelago. A Swedish Volunteer Battalion served with Finnish forces in the siege. The last Soviet troops left the peninsula in December 1941.
== Background == As part of the 1940 Moscow Peace Treaty which formally ended the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, Hanko was leased to the Soviet Union as a Soviet naval base. The civilian population was forced to evacuate before Soviet forces arrived. The leased area included several surrounding islands, several coastal artillery sites (among them the important fort of Russarö), important harbor facilities, and an area suitable for an airfield, which the Soviets quickly constructed. Troop transport rights from the Soviet Union to Hanko and back put severe strain on Finnish-Soviet relations, and played a part both in Finland's decision to allow German troops to transit Northern Finland, and later, to go to war with the Soviet Union. Though Hanko had originally been leased as a naval base, ground forces were far more numerous, with only a small naval detachment being present at the base.
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Recorded casualties in the area

Hanko: 46

The recorded place of death is usually a parish or village rather than an exact point, so the figure describes the area around the site. Names of the fallen are not shown.

Sotasampo · Kansallisarkisto, menehtyneet 1939–1945