# Kirjasalo

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**Kirjasalo** (Russian: Кирьясало) is an [abandoned village](/source/Abandoned_village) in [Vsevolozhsky District](/source/Vsevolozhsky_District) of [Leningrad Oblast](/source/Leningrad_Oblast), [Russia](/source/Russia). It was located between the [Volchya River](/source/Volchya_River_(Vuoksi_tributary)) and the [Tunteljoki](/source/Smorodinka_(river)) on the [Karelian Isthmus](/source/Karelian_Isthmus). Its population was largely composed of [Lutheran](/source/Lutheranism) [Ingrian Finns](/source/Ingrian_Finns), and the region belonged to the [Parish](/source/Parish) of [Lempaala](/source/Lembolovo) of the [Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria](/source/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Ingria).

## 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 city of the short-lived separatist [Republic of Kirjasalo](/source/North_Ingria), 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 Finnish [Selsoviet](/source/Selsoviet) (village soviet) called [Kuivozovski](/source/Kuivozovski) until 1936, when the village soviet was abolished.[5] In the mid-1930s the population was [a victim of genocide](/source/Genocide_of_the_Ingrian_Finns) or deported to other areas of the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union),[5] mostly to [Siberia](/source/Siberia).

During the [Continuation War](/source/Continuation_War), the Finnish defensive [VT-line](/source/VT-line) passed through Kirjasalo.

## Demographics

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-three [Russians](/source/Russians) and three other unspecified populations.[6]

## References

1. ["Исторические карты Всеволожского района | Фрагмент карты Нотебургского лена, начерченной в 1699 году с оригинала первой трети XVII века."](http://vsevinfo.ru/History/1699.htm). *vsevinfo.ru*. Retrieved 2017-11-28.

1. ["Исторические карты Всеволожского района"](http://vsevinfo.ru/History/0113.htm)

1. Niinistö, Jussi (2016). [*Heimosotien historia 1918-1922*](https://books.google.com/books?id=w5TbswEACAAJ) (in Finnish). Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. ISBN 978-952-222-846-8.

1. Targiajnen, Michail A. (2001). *Ingermanlandskij izlom: borʹba ingermanlandskich finnov v graždanskoj vojne na Severo-Zapade Rossii (1918 - 1920 gg.)*. S.-Peterburg: Bulanin. ISBN 978-5-86007-269-5.

1. Musajev, V.I. (2001). *Polititšeskaja istorija Ingermanlandii v kontse XIX–XX veke*. Kišinjov: Nestor-historia. p. 238. ISBN 9975-9606-4-2.

1. Janson, P.M. (1929). *Natsionalnyje menšinstva Leningradskoi oblasti (sbornik materialov)*. Leningrad: Orgotdel Leningradskogo Oblispolkoma. p. 22.

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