Husula is a village and district in Hamina,

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. It is located approximately 3 kilometres north from the town centre. Before the

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of Hamina and

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Vehkalahti Vehkalahti () is a former municipality surrounding the town of Hamina in south-eastern Finland. At the beginning of 2003 Hamina and Vehkalahti combined to form a new town of Hamina. History These southern parts of Karelia are known to be the ol ...

consolidated at the beginning of 2003, Husula was part of Vehkalahti. Together with the neighboring Salmenkylä, it comprises one of the biggest population centers in Hamina, with a population of nearly 2,000. Husula has played a part in Finnish history. In the 18th century when Sweden and

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were at war, Swedish

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and his army rested in Husula before they tried to attack Russian-occupied Hamina. Husula has two old cemeteries which are separated by the National road 7. Formerly the northern cemetery belonged to the Vehkalahti congregation and the southern one to the Hamina congregation, but now they both belong to the unified Hamina congregation.Husulan hautausmaa (Hamina) (in Finnish)
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Services

* Marian Tarha and Marinkujan Päiväkoti,

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s * Husula School, a

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with classes 1-6 * Sale Husula, a

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References

Sources

*Sjöström (2011), "Y-DNA and records of medieval land inheritance in Rolandh and Tepponen lineages of Vehkalahti, Finland", ''Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy'', volume 3 issue 6 (2011 July) pages 527..563 Villages in Finland Hamina {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub