Pervomayskoye, Leningrad Oblast
Pervomayskoye (russian: Первома́йское; fi, Kivennapa) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, northwest of St. Petersburg. It serves as the administrative center of Pervomayskoye Settlement Municipal Formation—an administrative division of the district—as well as of Pervomayskoye Rural Settlement, which that administrative division is municipally incorporated as. Population: 4,469 ( 2010 Census); 4,496 ( 2002 Census). Prior to 1944, Pervomayskoye was a part of Finland. It was then known as Kivennapa. History The name of Kivennapa seems to come from an old Scandinavian term for a border fortification, ''kivo näb'', but the foreign term was soon corrupted by the locals into ''Kivennapa'', meaning "rock's navel". The first mention of the settlement comes from 1445 as ''Kiwinapa'', when it was likely already a separate parish. Before that, Kivennapa was a part of the Muolaa ...
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