Maly Vysotsky Island
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Maly Vysotsky Island or Malyj Vysotskij Island (
leased to Finland. It is located in Vyborg Bay, next to Vysotsk, 12 km (7 miles) southwest of Vyborg
.
Between 1918 and 1940, the island was a part of Finnish territory, and was called Ravansaari. It was inhabited by nearly one thousand Finns, who earned their livelihood mainly from the
Russian Federation. The island was renamed Malyj Vysotsky. A treaty was signed in 1963 to lease the island and the nearby Saimaa Canal
to Finland for fifty years.
Because of the treaty and the island's isolation from both Finland and Russia,
Alexander Stepanovich Popov did his first radio experiments in the area at the turn of the 20th century made the island an attractive destination for DX-peditioners
. All such expeditions were organized by a Finnish-Russian group, the first of which occurred in 1988.
Under the new Saimaa Canal lease treaty signed by the Finnish and Russian governments in 2010, the island was to be managed again by Russian authorities. On the 17th of February 2012 the treaty went into effect, and Malyj Vysotsky was deleted from the
DXCC list of current amateur radio entities.[1]
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60°38′22″N 28°33′58″E / 60.63944°N 28.56611°E
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