Kyyrölä

Kyyrölä lay in Muolaa parish on the Karelian Isthmus, near the old road between Vyborg and Saint Petersburg. The Great Northern War left farms in the district deserted. In 1723 Count Grigory Chernyshev, who had received lands here, brought serf families from his Russian estates to settle them. The village became the centre of a Russian-speaking Orthodox community, known in later generations for its pottery.