Zashchitnaya Bay

Zashchitnaya Bay is the northernmost part of the Vyborg Bay. It is located in the city of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The Vyborg Bay is part of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. The Castle of Vyborg and the Monrepos Park face the Zashchitnaya Bay. The old Saimaa Canal, as well as the new one, connect the Zashchitnaya Bay with the Lake Saimaa in Finland.

In the Middle Ages, the river Vuoksa had an outlet in Suomenvedenpohja, which however dried up little by little due to post-glacial rebound and was left completely dry in 1857 when the Kiviniemi rapids in Losevo were formed and the Burnaya River became the main outlet of Vuoksa.