Muolaa Parish, Viipuri, Finland Genealogy

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

History
Muolaa (formerly Äyräpää and Pyhä Risti) is a former Finnish municipality which was ceded to the Soviet Union as part of the Moscow Peace Treaty. It is now known as Pravdino, in the Krasnoselskoe rural settlement, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Pravdino is a settlement on the Karelian Isthmus, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast. Until the Winter War and the Continuation War, it had been the administrative center of the Muolaa municipality of the Viipuri Province of Finland. There have been several churches built in Muolaa, with the latest being the fifth or sixth. The current parish was consecrated on First Advent 1852. The Swedish name is Mola.

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

Surrounding Parishes
Äyräpää, Vuoksela, Valkjärvi, Kivennapa, Kanneljärvi, Uusikirkko, Kuolemajärvi, Heinjoki