Salmi

Salmi lies on the northeastern shore of Lake Ladoga, in a district of islands, rivers and forested land. The Orthodox Salmi, or Solomensk, pogost appears in the Novgorodian register of 1500. Its territory extended along the shore and inland towards Suojärvi, and included the island of Mantsinsaari. A Lutheran church was founded at Miinala in 1639 during Swedish rule, but was destroyed in 1700. The district's position beside Ladoga exposed it to the changing fortunes of the Swedish-Russian frontier.