Karelian-isthmus
noun
1.
a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
noun
1.
a strip of land, now in Russia, between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga: annexed by the former Soviet Union after the Russo-Finnish War (1939–40)
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