Place:Värtsilä, Kuopio, Finland

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NameVärtsilä
Alt namesVärtsiläsource: Family History Library Catalog
Vartsila
TypeFormer Municipality
Located inKuopio, Finland
Also located inPohjois-Karjala, Itä-Suomi, Finland    
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Värtsilä is a former municipality of Finland. It merged with Tohmajärvi in 2005. The border crossing Niirala towards Vyartsilya is here.

Värtsilä was located in the province of Eastern Finland and was part of the North Karelia region. The municipality had a population of 647 (2003) and covered an area of of which was water. The population density was .

The main language spoken in Värtsilä is Finnish but new settlers from Russia and people evacuated from the lost Karelian areas after the Second World War form Russian and Karelian speaking minorities.

In addition to the current village, Värtsilä used to include the urban settlement of Vyartsilya, which since 1944 has belonged to Russia.

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