Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yakin hunturu tsakanin Finland da Tarayyar Soviet ya barke a watan Nuwamba 1939. Lokacin da aka sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Zaman Lafiya ta Moscow a watan Maris na 1940, an rasa Viipuri kuma an bar kawai yanki na yankin da kuma kungiyoyi hudu, Simpeleen Urheilijat (SiU) daga Simpele, YVPS, Etelä-Saimaan Kisa (ESK) daga Lauritsala da Lappeenrannan Urheilu-Miehet (LUM) daga Lappeenranta. Saboda wannan gundumar ta ƙaura hedkwatarta zuwa Lappeenranta, inda aka yi babban taro na farko a Satumba 1940. A shekara ta 1942 an yi babban taro a Imatra, kuma a shekara ta 1943 Finnish ya ci gaba a cikin Ci gaba da War
ya ba da izinin gundumar ta koma Viipuri na ɗan lokaci. A ƙarshe, lokacin da yaƙin ya ƙare a watan Satumba na 1944, an riƙe iyakokin da aka zana a 1940 kuma gundumar ta koma Lappeenranta.