Battle of Someri

Battle of Someri
	Part of Continuation War
	; Finnish gunboat Uusimaa
Date	8–10 July 1942 ; (2 days)
Location	Sommers in Gulf of Finland60°12′25″N 27°38′35″E / 60.207°N 27.643°E
Result	Finnish victory
Belligerents
Finland; Germany	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Veikko Rauhaniemi	Gordey Levchenko
Strength
277 men, 11 boats	313 men, 30 boats
Casualties and losses
23 killed; 68 wounded; 2 gunboats damaged; 2 minesweepers damaged	7 patrol boats sunk; 5 aircraft shot down; 128 killed; 149 captured; 200 drowned; 1 gunboat damaged; 1 minesweeper damaged; 11 patrol boats damaged

The Battle of Someri took place in the Gulf of Finland during World War II on 8–9 July 1942, between the Soviet Union and Finland. Starting as a modest operation to clear a Finnish observation post from a small island, it became one of the largest surface ship engagements in the Baltic theater.