- Beryozovye Islands
Beryozovye Islands ( _ru. Берёзовые острова; literally: "Birch Islands"), alternatively spelled Berezovye Islands, is an island group in
Leningrad Oblast ,Russia . The islands are situated at the bottom of theGulf of Finland , just outside the town ofPrimorsk on theKarelian Isthmus .There are 15 islands in the group, the largest is Bolshoy Beryozovy (Large Berezovy). Other islands include
Zapadny Beryozovy (West Beryozovy) andSeverny Beryozovy (North Beryozovy). The total area of the group, stretching along the coast for 200 km, is 92 km². They are protected by the state as a seabird sanctuary and one of theRamsar sites in Russia .Between the
World Wars , the islands belonged toFinland , to a commune then called Koivisto (Swedish: Björkö). The main settlement on the islands was then calledSaarenpää . The islands gave name to theTreaty of Björkö (1905).See also
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Björkö (disambiguation)
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