Location: Vyborg
Top Things to do in Vyborg
What to do and see in Vyborg, Northwestern District: The Best Budget-friendly Things to do
Vyborg is a small, picturesque resort town a short train ride away from St. Petersburg. Medieval fortifications rise above the small peninsula on which the town is set, and the whole place can be seen by foot in a few hours. The highlight is Vyborg Castle, originally built by the Swedish, then captured and recaptured by the Russians and the Finnish. It has a great view of the town.
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1. Alvar Aalto Library
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5.0 based on 163 reviews
2. Historical-Cultural Center Varyazhskiy Dvor
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5.0 based on 141 reviews
In the mysterious Karelian forests, not far from Vyborg, as if carried through the centuries, lies the medieval town of Svargas – the Capital of the Norman lands, with all its buildings and inhabitants, a real city of the Baltic Slavs the Viking age. The history of the build with their own hands the people of Svargas, his warriors, artisans, and lovers of history, enthusiasts to be reminded of the culture of the Baltic Slavs, obodrites, Wegrow, Ruyan, lutici, wends ... In the story of the life of Svargas, as in flowing river streams, join the fate of each guest coming for the holidays who curious tourists, who have a wedding to celebrate, and all of them carry away a piece of Sunny sky in your heart.
Reviewed By sergeyk147
Varyazhsky Dvor means Viking's Yard in Russian but it actually has another - and by far simpler a name - Svargas which is translated from Indo-European as Sunny Sky. This is a purely private project which is sixteen years old. Their life has been tough - constant fight with local red tape and corruption, volatile cash-flow and even a direct arson attack from hostile competitors. They were burnt virtually to ashes (!!!) and reconstructed the whole thing with their own hands! (One can still see charred walls on the second (English - first) floor. To understand what goes on there please read a review by the guy from Vermont. I'd only add that you can also try a smashing old-style lunch there - Vikings' cabbage or pea (no rubbish cream!) soup and home-made ham hock (Haxe, Eisbein) with potatoes. But - attention! - this service is oursourced so please get in touch with the complex in advance and bear in mind that if the guys are missing there'll be absolutely no opportunity to even have a snack there. So mind it in the course of your planning. But if they ARE there then first thing to do upon arrival should be approaching them and making an order. Then go to their smithy, throw axes, shoot a bow, try chainmail and other medieval haute couture stuff, etc. 'coz in an hour the meals will be ready and you won't have to wait. Their parking is rather modest and this should be taken into account as well. And toilets... Mind-blowing smell. Get ready for a simple obsolete outhouse. Very disappointing. Apart from this - magnificent and very interesting. Recommended!
3. Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy Cathedral
4. Vyborg Castle
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4.5 based on 1,196 reviews
Reviewed By shmeva44 - Moscow, Russia
Really picturesque from across the river, as long as you're not on the side with all the construction. The museum is a good one, even though foreigners are supposed to pay an entry fee double what Russians are charged.
5. Monrepos Park, Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum Preserve
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4.5 based on 1,003 reviews
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Reviewed By TRAVELandENJ0Ylife - Espoo, Finland
Beautiful park to visit already now, only ca 2km from the city center. Monrepos Park is being thoroughly restored but can already be visited (the small island bridge wasn't there, but many parts of the park could already be visited). The shores and the landscape is calming and you see many different types of visitors - joggers that pass quickly and families that take time to admire the flowers. The Neptun temple has been rebuilt 1999. The sun was shining and it was relaxing to walk around and wonder how people used to walk and visit the park 100 years ago. Next time I'll bring some picnic and enjoy an even longer stay.
6. Mannerheim Line
7. War Museum of the Karelian Isthmus
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4.5 based on 75 reviews
Our War Museum is located at the territory of Central barracks in the historical part of Vyborg. The museum includes the following expositions: -Museum "Women at war" (Building 1) -Diorama "At that infamous war" (Building 6) -Weaponry hall (Building 1) -Exhibition of propaganda leaflets of wartime (Building 1) "Women at war" tells about the impact of soviet girls into the victory in the Great Patriotic war (1941-1945). "At that infamous war" is the biggest diorama devoted to Winter war (1939-1940) and tells about 4 Soviet heroes of that war. Both expositions were created due to Presidential Grants Fund. At the hall of weaponry it is allowed to take the presented riffles and try on the uniform. You can also watch the biggest collection of Finnish propaganda leaflets in Russia. It is also possible to take photos on the territory of the museum (included in the price of tickets). Welcome!
8. Exhibition Center Hermitage-Vyborg
9. Statue of Torkel Knutsson
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4.5 based on 142 reviews
Reviewed By sergeyk147
First it was the last Russian emperor Nicolas II who showed moral courage to bless a statue of a Swede on Russian soil. It strongly resembles a monument to Birger Jarl aka Birger Magnusson, a prominent Swedish statesman and warrior, on Riddarholmen island in Stockholm. It's not a co-incidence - in 1884 Finnish architect Johan Jacob Ahrenberg who initiated the project specifically asked Carl Wilhelm Vallgren, a Finnish sculptor (both were subjects of Russian empire 'coz Finland was then part of it) that Torkel Knutsson looked somewhat like his famous compatriot. When a plaster version was ready and the gentlemen turned to Russian authorities for approval local governor strongly opposed the very idea of it but in the end of the day in 1908 founder of Vyborg took his place in the center of the city. It stood there till 1948 but then Soviet communists decided that enough was enough and toppled it - at night, like villains always do. They put a rope around his body and pulled it down - only his feet kept standing on the plinth. By incredible play of Doom the statue has not been destroyed but dragged into some barn and forgotten there. It was found quite by chance in 1975 but returned to its present place only in 1993, after the fall of those obscurantists. This time, hopefully, for good. Gorgeous.
10. Monument to Apraksin
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4.5 based on 32 reviews
Reviewed By sergeyk147
It happenned in March 1710. For this achievement Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called was conferred upon him - the highest state award of the Russian empire. The tzar also made him a count. Fyodor Apraksin was an outstanding personality and a close associate of Peter the Great. Monument to him was erected in 2010 in commemoration of 300-years' anniversary of the city's capture from Sweden. The place is not a co-incidence - it's here where Russian artillery shelled the fortress from and where the final attack started. Imposing.
