Solovyovo, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast

For other places with the same name, see Solovyovo.

60°38′N 30°30′E / 60.633°N 30.500°E / 60.633; 30.500

Taipale at the eastern end of the Mannerheim Line (pre-1940 border)

Solovyovo (Russian: Соловьёво; Finnish: Taipale), formerly Taipale, is a rural locality (a settlement) in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the western shore of Lake Ladoga on the Karelian Isthmus about 80 kilometers (50 mi) north of Saint Petersburg. The settlement is approximately 100 kilometers (62 mi) east-southeast of the post-Winter War border with Finland. Vuoksi River's southern armlet Burnaya empties into Lake Ladoga at Solovyovo. As of January 1997, its population was 7.[1]

  1. ^ Administrative-Territorial Structure of Leningrad Oblast, p. 102