Pervomayskoye (; ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a settlement) in Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, northwest of Saint Petersburg, 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 subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions, municipally incorporated as. Population: 4,469 (Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census); 4,496 (Russian Census (2002), 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 Pravdino, Krasnoselskoye Settlement Municipal Formation, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Muolaa parish. The parish was occasionally also called ''Hanttula'' or ''Pihlainen'' after two other villages in the area, even though Hanttula was mainly located within Muolaa. The borders of the Kivennapa parish remained unchanged until 1904, when five villages on the coast were separated from it, forming the Zelenogorsk, Saint Petersburg, Terijoki municipality. Kivennapa was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944. Its inhabitants were mainly relocated to the Häme Province. It was renamed ''Pervomayskoye'', "First of May", in 1948.

Notable people

* Aleksander Strandman (1856-1933), Senate of Finland, Finnish Senator * Olavi Paavolainen (1903-1964), List of Finnish writers, Finnish author

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Leningrad Oblast Karelian Isthmus