This video presentation of the Salla and Kuolajärvi area is based on articles I read in old newspapers and information from Wikipedia, so there are some minor factual errors. A couple of people who watched the video have contacted us about these errors, thank you for the feedback. Some of Salla's expert Facebook fans have also corrected factual errors in the video, many thanks to them. It's nice to read constructive feedback with your own name! The photos have been colored with image processing programs, I have taken the places and names directly from the names mentioned in the photos, I have not been able to check their correctness because I have never been to the old Salla, I have been to the area of ​​the current Salla and I will probably visit again. While making this video, I tried to find factual information about the Salla and Kuolajärvi area on my web browser, but unfortunately there was little of it? The village of Marti shown in the pictures of the video has always belonged to Savukoski, Salla's municipal home was located in Aatsing village before the wars, and Salla's latest church in Sallansuu, i.e. in the old center of Salla. Vuosjärvi has actually been called Vuosnajärvi. The municipality of Salla is located in the region of Northeastern Lapland. After the Winter and Continuation War, about half of the area of ​​the municipality remained behind the national border in Russia (Soviet Union). The municipality of Salla used to be called the old Kuolajärvi and colloquially the Lapland name Salla was also used. I'm not an expert on Sámi place names and etymology, but the word Kuola must have been guolli in Northern Sámi, which means fish. According to a newspaper article, Lake Kuolajärvi was previously called Guollejavre, which means Fish Lake. The name Salla as the name of the municipality was introduced in 1936. Salla is a woman's name, it means to embrace. However, the names Sallatunturi, Sallajärvi and Sallajoki are of older origin, so the original meaning of the name Salla may be something else. The Salla Lulaja Sami word (spoken in Jällivaara, Jokimukka and Norway) means a bed, a crack or a hollow, but we cannot deduce the etymology of Salla's name through them. The first inhabitants on the shores of Kuolajärvi's rivers and lakes came as early as the 16th century from Russia, they were called Metsälappalians at that time. According to one source, Kuolajärvi has been inhabited since the 8th century, as money from that time and a silver buckle dated to the 12th century have been found in the area. At the end of the 16th century, Lapland villages were formed on the shores of lakes and rivers, which were called Siida in Sami. At that time, most of the inhabitants of Kuolajärvi were Lapps and forest Lapps. The Lapland villages were divided into home municipalities, each of them had its own game and fishing areas. In the villages of Kuolajärvi, modern reindeer herding became common in the 17th century, and in the following century bread grain was cultivated. In 1777, Kemijärvi was separated as an independent parish from the Kemi parish and at that stage Kuolajärvi was considered to belong to Kemijärvi. A chapel congregation under the Kemijärvi congregation was formed in Kuolajärvi in ​​1826. Kuolajärvi received the rights of an independent congregation in 1857 (Antti Kettunen). Lake Kuolajärvi and various regions of Lapland experienced several roof years in past centuries, the largest of which were in 1717–18, 1734–43 and 1810–12. During these years, the population of Kuolajärvi declined and the inhabitants of the villages moved east and west in search of bread. Reindeer husbandry became common in the Salla region in the 19th century, and for example in 1828 there were 9,947 reindeer in the villages of Kuolajärvi. Agriculture also began to become more common at the end of the 19th century, and in 1928 there were 104 horses, 568 cows and 837 sheep in the villages of Kuolajärvi. The following information from an old newspaper from the 1920s: The villages of Kuolajärvi were joined to the Kemijärvi parish church founded on October 24, 1776, and at the same time tax payments to Russia stopped. Kuolajärvi separated into its own chapel congregation between 1825 and 1840. The church designed by CL Engel in Kuolajärvi was completed in 1838 and was destroyed in 1939 when the Finns retreated from the church village to the west. The local administration of Kuolajärvi was established in 1857 by separating more than 20 villages from Kemijärvi and Kuusamo. The name of Kuolajärvi was changed to Salla in 1936, I don't know the reason for the name change. Before the Winter War, the area of ​​Salla municipality was 11,854 km2, and at the end of the 1930s, 8,600 people lived there. The first public school was founded in a small house in the church village of Kuolajärvi in ​​1893. After that, schools were demanded in other villages as well. There were a total of 21 school districts an