Käkisalmi Parish, Viipuri, Finland Genealogy

Guide to Käkisalmi parish, Finland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History
Käkisalmi is a former Finnish municipality which was ceded to the Soviet Union as part of the Moscow Peace Treaty. It is now called Priozersk, and is located in Priozersky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. On October 1, 1948, Keksgolm was renamed Priozersk as a part of the campaign to rename localities in the areas annexed from Finland after the Second World War. Priozersk was settled with mainly Russians, Belorussian, and Ukrainian migrants, who have since comprised the majority of the local population. The municipality was surrounded by Käkisalmi rural municipality (Käkisalmen maalaiskunta, Swedish: Kexholms landskommun). The municipality included a Lutheran church and the Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Käkisalmen Neitsyt Marian syntymän kirkko). The Swedish name is Kexholm.

Villages
In 1922 the following villages were found in this parish: Ala-Puusti or Alapuusti, Hirvisaari, Joensuu, Kapeasalmi, Marjalanniemi, Norsjoki, Näpinlahti, Ostamo, Pärnä, Pörtsykkä, Sakkali, Suotniemi, Suikalahti, Tenkalahti, Vuohensalo ja Ylä-Puusti or Yläpuusti.

Place Names
To see what kind of place it is you will need a Finnish gazetteer.

Surnames
1690 1860

Surrounding Parishes
Kaukola, Pyhäjärvi, Räisälä