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Vuokinsalmi




Although Vuokinsalmi is located in the Republic of Karelia and is administered by the city council of the Kostamoksha, it is presented here in connection with the villages of Hietajärvi and Kuivaniemi, because the three form an indivisible whole.

Vuokinsalmi Strait lies on the eastern shore of Lake Hietajärvi and is within sight and earshot of the village of Hietajärvi in Finland. There is no longer a village at that location, however. Like its sister village across the late, Vuokinsalmi, it was never very large. According to the 1905 census, it had 12 houses and 94 inhabitants. Yet the village has given the world two significant bards: Domna Huovinen, who married and moved to Kuivajärvi, and Anni Denisov, who worked in Paahkomienvaara before going as a young bride to Tollonjoki.