Results for keyword: ”East Karelia”

By 1922, some 42,000 refugees had arrived in Finland, including about 25,000 Ingrians and East-Karelians, the remaining 17,000 being Russians. About half of them, 8,000, were Kronstadt refugees who had revolted against Soviet Russia. They had fled across the ice-covered sea and arrived in Terijoki in early spring 1921. By 1929, almost 25,000 refugees had […]

In 1918–1922, Finnish volunteers participated in the efforts of Finnic peoples to break away from Russia. These conflicts, called in Finnish “heimosodat” (literally translated “Kinship Wars”), took place in Viena (1918), Aunus (1919) and Petsamo (1918 and 1920). Closely related to the Finnic wars was the involvement of Finnish volunteers in the Estonian War of […]