War reparations of Finland to the Soviet Union were originally worth US$300,000,000 at 1938 prices. Finland agreed to pay the reparations in the Moscow Armistice signed on 19 September 1944. The protocol to determine more precisely the war reparations to the Soviet Union was signed in December 1944, by the prime minister Juho Kusti Paasikivi and the chairman of the Allied Control Commission for controlling the Moscow Armistice in Helsinki, Andrei Zhdanov.
Tampella steam engines being delivered as war reparations
Celebration of the final Finnish war reparations deliveries in the Exhibition Hall in Helsinki on September 23, 1952. Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi is sitting in the middle of the first row.
Loading of the last war reparation train at Kone Ltd's workshop in Hyvinkää 28.8.1952
Voima (1924 icebreaker)
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Voima was a Finnish and later Soviet steam-powered icebreaker. Laid down at Werft Becker & Co. in Tallinn in 1916 and fitted with engines in Danzig in 1918, the unfinished icebreaker was towed to Helsinki in 1920 and completed by Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstads Ab in 1923–1924. After two decades of successful service Voima was handed over to the Soviet Union as war reparation in 1945 and renamed Malygin (Малыгин). She remained in service until 1970 and was broken up in 1971.
Voima was fitted with 120 mm Pattern 1905 deck guns before the Second World War