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Kirjasalo

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Kirjasalo
Кирьясало
Village
Inhabitants of Kirjasalo, 1920
Inhabitants of Kirjasalo, 1920
Kirjasalo is located in Leningrad Oblast
Kirjasalo
Kirjasalo
Location of Kirjasalo in Leningrad Oblast
Coordinates:60°26′23″N30°05′52″E/ 60.43972°N 30.09778°E/60.43972; 30.09778
CountryRussia
Federal DistrictNorthwestern Federal District
Federal SubjectLeningrad Oblast
DistrictPriozersky District
Population
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Kirjasalo(Russian:Кирьясало) is anabandoned villageinVsevolozhsky DistrictofLeningrad Oblast,Russia.It was located between theVolchya Riverand theTunteljoki[fi]on theKarelian Isthmus.Its population was largely composed ofLutheranIngrian Finns,and the region belonged to theParishofLempaalaof theEvangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria.

History

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The village was first mentioned on a 17th-century map asKoriasilka.[1]Kirjasalo has also been spelled as "Кирьясалы" (Kirjasaly) in older Russian maps, at least between 1885 and the 1920s.[2]

From 1919 to 1920, Kirjasalo served as the capital city of the short-lived separatistRepublic of Kirjasalo,also known as North Ingria.[3]During the time of de facto independence, the region would gain its first hospital and proper infrastructure.[4]

In 1926, Kirjasalo became a part of the FinnishSelsoviet(village soviet) calledKuivozovski[fi]until 1936, when the village soviet was abolished.[5]In the mid-1930s the population wasa victim of genocideor deported to other areas of theSoviet Union,[5]mostly toSiberia.

During theContinuation War,the Finnish defensiveVT-linepassed through Kirjasalo.

Demographics

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In 1926, the population makeup of the village did not have a homogeneous population, instead being made up of three-hundred-six Ingrian Finns, fifty-threeRussiansand three other unspecified populations.[6]

Population graph

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References

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  1. ^"Исторические карты Всеволожского района | Фрагмент карты Нотебургского лена, начерченной в 1699 году с оригинала первой трети XVII века".vsevinfo.ru.Retrieved2017-11-28.
  2. ^"Исторические карты Всеволожского района".
  3. ^Niinistö, Jussi (2016).Heimosotien historia 1918-1922(in Finnish). Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.ISBN978-952-222-846-8.
  4. ^Targiajnen, Michail A. (2001).Ingermanlandskij izlom: borʹba ingermanlandskich finnov v graždanskoj vojne na Severo-Zapade Rossii (1918 - 1920 gg.).S.-Peterburg: Bulanin.ISBN978-5-86007-269-5.
  5. ^abMusajev, V.I. (2001).Polititšeskaja istorija Ingermanlandii v kontse XIX–XX veke.Kišinjov: Nestor-historia. p. 238.ISBN9975-9606-4-2.
  6. ^Janson, P.M. (1929).Natsionalnyje menšinstva Leningradskoi oblasti (sbornik materialov).Leningrad: Orgotdel Leningradskogo Oblispolkoma. p. 22.
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