Finnish–Russian border conflicts

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The Finnish–Russian border conflicts were a series of post–World War I military clashes between Finland and Soviet Russia over territorial control and the final delineation of their shared frontier.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf border conflict
military conflict
aimOfFinland secure eastern frontier
support kindred peoples in East Karelia
aimOfSovietRussia retain control over border regions
alsoKnownAs Finnish–Russian border conflicts
surface form: Finnish–Soviet border conflicts
belligerent Kingdom of Finland
Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
borderDefined Soviet–Finnish border
surface form: Finnish–Soviet border in Karelia

Soviet–Finnish border
surface form: Finnish–Soviet border in Petsamo area
cause Finnish irredentism in East Karelia
disputed borders after collapse of Russian Empire
conflictBetween Finland
Russian SFSR
surface form: Soviet Russia
endTime 1922
followedBy Winter War
follows Finnish Civil War
World War I
hasPart Aunus expedition
East Karelian Uprising
Heimosodat
Kinship Wars
Aunus expedition
surface form: Petsamo expeditions

Vienna expedition
historicalPeriod interwar period
languageOfSources Finnish
Russian
locatedIn Finnish–Russian border region
outcome Finland gained Petsamo
Finland renounced claims to East Karelia
partOf history of Finland
history of Karelia
history of Soviet Union
post–World War I conflicts
primaryTheater East Karelia
eastern Finland
surface form: Eastern Finland

Petsamo region
relatedTo Karelian question
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
result Treaty of Tartu
delimitation of Finnish–Soviet border
startTime 1918
temporalContext after Russian Revolution
after independence of Finland

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Finnish Civil War followedBy Finnish–Russian border conflicts
Hjalmar Siilasvuo placeOfActivity Finnish–Russian border conflicts
this entity surface form: Finnish–Soviet border regions
Taipale associatedWith Finnish–Russian border conflicts
this entity surface form: Finnish–Soviet border changes
Finnish–Russian border conflicts alsoKnownAs Finnish–Russian border conflicts
this entity surface form: Finnish–Soviet border conflicts