page_title: Elisenvaara
hierarchical_section_title: Elisenvaara
caption_attribution_description: English: The railway station of Elisenvaara in Kurkijoki (nowadays District of Lakhdenpokhsky, Republic of Karelia, Russia) in the Finnish Karelia ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944. The station building was destroyed in bombings in February 1940. Suomi: Elisenvaaran rautatieasema Kurkijoen kunnassa luovutetussa Karjalassa (nykyisessä Elisenvaaran maaseututaajamassa Lahdenpohjan piirissä Karjalan tasavallassa Venäjällä). Rakennus tuhoutui talvisodan ilmapommituksissa osittain joulukuussa 1939 ja lopullisesti helmikuussa 1940.
context_page_description: Elisenvaara is a settlement in Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, and an important station of the Viipuri-Joensuu railroad. The station is also linked by railway to Savonlinna, Finland. The settlement has an approximate population of 686 people.
  The settlement grew around the railroad junction, with railroad connections to Viipuri, Sortavala, Lappeenranta and Savonlinna. In 1940, in the Moscow Armistice, Finnish Karelia, along with the Saint Petersburg-Sortavala railroad, was ceded to the Soviet Union. Connections to Lappeenranta and Savonlinna were cut.
  The bombing of the Elisenvaara railway station on 20 June 1944, during the final stages of the Continuation War, was the most fatal bombing in Finnish history; over a hundred civilians were killed when the Soviet air bombs hit a train of Karelian evacuees
context_section_description: Elisenvaara (Russian: Элисенваара; Finnish: Elisenvaara) is a settlement in Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, and an important station of the Viipuri-Joensuu railroad. The station is also linked by railway to Savonlinna, Finland. The settlement has an approximate population of 686 people.
  The settlement grew around the railroad junction, with railroad connections to Viipuri, Sortavala, Lappeenranta and Savonlinna. In 1940, in the Moscow Armistice, Finnish Karelia, along with the Saint Petersburg-Sortavala railroad, was ceded to the Soviet Union. Connections to Lappeenranta and Savonlinna were cut.
  The bombing of the Elisenvaara railway station on 20 June 1944, during the final stages of the Continuation War, was the most fatal bombing in Finnish history; over a hundred civilians were killed when the Soviet air bombs hit a train of Karelian evacuees
caption: The old railway station, constructed around 1893, was destroyed in the Winter War.
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