The Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Karelian ASSR for short, sometimes referred to as Russian Karelia, East Karelia or simply Karelia, was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR wit
Stamp, Capitals of autonomous republics, Karelian ASSR, Petrozavodsk 1960
Stamp "50 years of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" Mail USSR 1970
Town Kondopoga in Soviet Karelia on September 1988
Edvard Gylling
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Edvard Otto Vilhelm Gylling was a Finnish politician, statistician and economist. A member of the Diet of Finland for the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1908 to 1917 and vice chairman of the
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
…immigrants) were applying a significant policy of indigenization over the ASSR. This was mainly taken care of by the long-time leader of the Karelian ASSR, Edvard Gylling. Finnish was used as the primary language for education and administration, with Russian in second. It's believed that Gylling, a Finnish socialist…
Edvard Gylling