Mannerheim Line is preserved at varying levels in different places – suprisingly well at some localities. It offers interesting historical and heritage experiences and brings history concretely closer to the visitors. Below you can find photographs and videos of the ruins of Mannerheim Line as it is today, more pictures and videos will be added as the work proceeds.
Summankylä Sk16 bunker / Summankylä Sk16 bunkkeri (Public domain, One half 3544).
Arkeologit Olli Kunnas ja Kerkko Nordqvist ihmettelevät Taipaleenjoen kranaattikuoppaista maisemaa / Archaeologists Olli Kunnas and Kerkko Nordqvist admiring the landscape scarred by artillery craters in the Taipaleenjoki area (Oula Seitsonen)
Anti tank defences at Summajärvi / Panssariestettä Summajärvellä (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Remains of the bunker Summankylä Sk6 / Summankylän Sk6 bunkkerin jäänteet (Creative Commons, Vitold Muratov).
Summa, piikkilankaa – Summa, barbed wire (Oula Seitsonen).
Entrance of the Leipäsuo Le7 bunker / Leipäsuon Le7 bunkkerin sisäänkäynti (Public domain, One half 3544).
Inkilä Ink5 bunker / Inkilän Ink5 bunkkeri (Public domain).
Anti tank defenses / Panssariestettä (Public domain).
Bunker Sj5 “Million Fortress” / Bunkkeri Sj5 “Miljoonalinnake” (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Kenttälinnoitteita – field fortifications (Oula Seitsonen).
River Peronjoki flood dam at Mannerheim Line / Peronjoen tulvapato Mannerheimlinjalla (Public domain).
Memorial plaque at Sj5 “Million Fortress” / Muistolaatta Sj5 “Miljoonalinnake” (Creative Commons, Volkov).
Summajärvi Sj6 Battalion HQ bunker / Summajärvi Sj6 Pataljoonan komentobunkkeri (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Summajärvi Sj2 “Test Fortress” / Summajärvi Sj2 “Testilinnake” (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Summa battlefield / Summan taistelumaisema (Creative Commons, Ninara)
Summajärvi, bunker Sj7 /Summajärvi, bunkkeri Sj7 (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Tuliasema – fox hole (Oula Seitsonen).
Memorial plaque at bunker Sk6 / Bunkkerin Sk6 muistolaatta (Creative Commons, Vitold Muratov).
Inside bunker Summankylä Sk10 – compare with the wartime picture from March 1940 inside the same bunker / Summnakylä Sk10 bunkkerissa – vrt. kuva maaliskuulta 1940 samasta bunkkerista sota-ajan kuvissa (Creative Commons, Ninara).
Summa battlefield / Summan taistelumaisema (Creative Commons, Ninara)
Summajärvi, anti tank defenses /Summajärvi, panssariestettä (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Summajärvi, anti tank defenses /Summajärvi, panssariestettä (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Summajärvi, anti tank defenses /Summajärvi, panssariestettä (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Leipäsuo Le4 bunker / Leipäsuo Le4 bunkkeri (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Bunker Sj4 “Poppius” / Bunkkeri Sj4 “Poppius” (Creative Commons, Muhranoff).
Summankylä Sk16 bunker / Summankylä Sk16 bunkkeri (Creative Commons, Vitold Muratov).
Summajärvi, bunker Sj8 and concrete trench /Summajärvi, bunkkeri Sj8 ja valettu juoksuhauta (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Summajärvi, anti tank defenses /Summajärvi, panssariestettä (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Summajärvi, trenches /Summajärvi, juoksuhautaa (Creative Commons, Armenzakh).
Kenttälinnoitteita – field fortifications (Oula Seitsonen).