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Consulate General of Finland, Saint Petersburg

diplomatic mission

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ5164549 ↗
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The Consulate-General of Finland in Saint Petersburg was the consulate-general of the Republic of Finland in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. It was located at four Preobrazhenskaya Square (Russian: Преображенская пл. 4) in the Tsentralny district of Saint Petersburg.

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This entry incorporates text from “Consulate General of Finland, Saint Petersburg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.