Maly Vysotsky Island

It was inhabited by nearly one thousand Finns, who earned their livelihood mainly from the timber industry.

[citation needed] During World War II, in 1940, it was annexed by the Soviet Union (along with the surrounding territory) and became a part of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.

A treaty was signed in 1963 to lease the island and the nearby Saimaa Canal to Finland for fifty years.

This and the fact that Alexander Stepanovich Popov did his first radio experiments in the area at the turn of the 20th century made the island an attractive destination for DX-peditioners.

On the 17th of February 2012 the treaty went into effect, and Malyj Vysotsky was deleted from the DXCC list of current amateur radio entities.