Kirjasalo

Kirjasalo

Kirjasalo

Village in Russia

Kirjasalo (Russian: Кирьясало) is an abandoned village in Vsevolozhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It was located between the Volchya and the Smorodinka rivers. Its population was largely composed of Ingrian Finns.

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History

The village was first mentioned on a 17th-century map as Koriasilka.[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 of the short-lived Republic of North-Ingria.

In the mid-1930s the population was for the most part repressed or deported to other areas of the Soviet Union.[3] During the Continuation War, the Finnish defensive VT-line passed through Kirjasalo.

Demography

References

  1. [1]
    "Исторические карты Всеволожского района | Фрагмент карты Нотебургского лена, начерченной в 1699 году с оригинала первой трети XVII века". vsevinfo.ru. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
  2. [2]
    "Исторические карты Всеволожского района".
  3. [3]
    Musajev, V.I. (2001). Polititšeskaja istorija Ingermanlandii v kontse XIX–XX veke. Kišinjov: Nestor-historia. p. 238. ISBN 9975-9606-4-2.

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