Korpiselkä Parish, Viipuri, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Korpiselkä is a former Finnish municipality which was ceded to the Soviet Union as part of the Moscow Peace Treaty. The part that remained in Finland was joined in 1946 to the municipality of Tuupovaara and the county of Kuopio. Korpiselkä was the only one of the municipalities in Viipuri county, of which at least part remained in Finland, whose remaining part was not annexed to Kymi county.

In the village of Korpiselä, a chapel (tsasouna) consecrated to Saint Nicholas already in the 17th century, and in the 1770s a church was built in its place. The villages in the Korpiselä area formed an orthodox chapel congregation under Suojärvi in 1799 and an independent congregation was formed from it in 1815. The prayer chapel for the Lutheran congregation attached to Soanlahti parish was founded in 1885, and the Lutheran church was completed in 1890.

Villages
In 1922 the following villages were found in this parish: Haukivaara, Hoilola, Hominvaara, Karali, Keskijärvi, Kilpijärvi, Kitilänselkä, Kokkari, Korpiselkä (kirkonkylä), Lehmivaara, Mannervaara, Meriinaho, Ruhovaara, Saarivaara, Saaroinen, Tolvajärvi, Tshiipakka, Tshikki, Tshokki, Vieksinki, Yläjärvi ja Ägläjärvi.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Ilomantsi, Suojärvi, Suistamo, Soanlahti, Vartsila, Kovero / Tuupovaara