Soikino

The Soikino peninsula projects into the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. Finnic-speaking peoples lived here long before the region came under the influence of Novgorod. Sixteenth-century cadastral books describe villages on the Soikino hills by the sea as part of the Kargala parish in the Koporye district of Novgorod's Vodskaya division. The peninsula belonged to Swedish Ingria for much of the seventeenth century, when settlers known as the Äyrämöiset began to arrive; it later returned to Russian rule.