* Although it's sure that the forts had 4 guns, I'm not sure, if they were armed at the time of the Kelja battles with 3 Caponier and one 1*Nordenfelt guns. They were armed with these guns when the war ended, but I can't find any exact info if they had started the war with such composition.
On Dec 22nd the other of the Patoniemi mg bunkers was destroyed by direct fire from a Soviet battery. On the next day, the other mg bunker was also destroyed by Soviet artillery, so the fort had lost both of it's mg's in two days, just before the attack of the Soviet 4th division.
In the Kelja area, the width of Suvanto varied from 700 to 2000 meters. There were some villages or individual houses on the southern side of the Suvanto, like Lapinlahti, Pajari and Riiska. On both sides of Suvanto, the terrain was mostly forest, only near buildings were the terrain more open. The largest open areas were between the villages of Haaparainen and Kelja.
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