Ingermanland Stamp

I never heard of this country(?) before. Is it still around?
Ingermanland, North: Russian territory (Ingria) adjoining Finland declared its independence, 1920: issued stamps, part of Russia.(from askphil)This stamp is in the new loaner books(10 cent per stamp)from my stamp store.


I learned something new today!

rockin

Soviet Ingria
After the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia, the Republic of North Ingria (Pohjois Inkeri) declared its independence from Russia with the support of Finland and with the aim to be incorporated into Finland. It ruled parts of Ingria from 1919 until 1920. With the Russian-Finnish Peace Treaty of Tartu it was re-integrated into Russia, but enjoyed a certain degree of autonomy.

At its height in the 1920s, there were about 300 Finnish language schools and 10 Finnish language newspapers in Ingria. [1]

The First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union in 1926 recorded 114,831 Leningrad Finns, as Ingrian Finns were called.[2] The 1926 census also showed that the Russian population of central Ingria had outnumbered the Finnic peoples living there, but in Northern Ingria Ingrian Finns formed the majority.[4]


New Ladoga Canal. Its westernmost portions lie in IngriaThe Izhorian language in the early 1930s was taught in the schools of the Soikino Peninsula and the area around the mouth of the Luga River.[2]

In 1928 collectivization of agriculture started in Ingria. To facilitate it, in 1929-1931, 18,000 people (4320 families), kulaks (independent peasants) from North Ingria, were deported to East Karelia, the Kola Peninsula as well as Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

The situation for the Ingrian Finns deteriorated further when in the fall of 1934 the Forbidden Border Zone along the western border of the Soviet Union was established, where nobody could appear without special permission issued by NKVD. It was officially only 7.5 km deep initially, but along the Estonian border it extended to as much as 90 km. The zone was to be free of Finnic and some other peoples, who were considered politically unreliable.[4][9] On March 25, 1935, Genrikh Yagoda authorized a large-scale deportation targeting Estonian, Latvian and Finnish kulaks and lishentsy residing in the border regions near Leningrad. About 7,000 people (2,000 families) were deported from Ingria to Kazakhstan, Central Asia and the Ural region. In May and June 1936 the entire 20,000 Finnish population of the parishes of Valkeasaari, Lempaala, Vuole and Miikkulainen near the Finnish border were resettled to the areas around Cherepovets and Siberia in the next wave of deportations. In Ingria they were replaced with people from other parts of the Soviet Union, mostly Russians, but also Ukrainians and Tatars.[2][4]

In 1937 Lutheran churches and Finnish and Izhorian schools in Ingria were closed down and publications and radio broadcasting in Finnish and Izhorian were suspended.

Both Ingrian Finnish and Izhorian populations all but disappeared from Ingria during the Soviet period. 63,000 fled to Finland during World War II, and were required back by Stalin after the war. Most became victims of Soviet population transfers and many executed as "enemies of the people".[4][9][2] The remainder, including some post-Stalin returnees (it was not until 1956 that some of the deported were allowed to return to their villages), were outnumbered by Russian immigration.

The 1959 census recorded 1062 Izhorians; in 1979 that number had fallen to 748, only 315 of them around the mouth of the Luga River and on the Soykino Peninsula. According to the Soviet census of 1989, there were 829 Izhorians, 449 of them in Russia (including other parts of the country) and 228 in Estonia.[2]

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, surviving Ingrian Finns and their Russified descendants have been allowed to emigrate to Finland. This has led to the birth of a sizable Russophone minority in Finland.

Great info Bobg......

Just how big is your "book of trivia" ?

bobgggg, thanks, you are a wealth of information! Guess I will keep it and add it to my Russian stamps.

rockin

Yes encourage him !

Tom..as big as Wikipedia gets....

Great stamp Robin. Bob thanks for looking up the info, great history lesson.

Dianne

I would add it to Finland, as most catalogues do including the specialised LAPE Finland catalogue.
Just as Aunus and Karelia.

Jan-Simon

Note that the wavy lined background pattern resembles that of Finnish stamps of the time. There is a Russian-Finnish connection, and early stamps from both are very similar. Also, I thought I had read somewhere that what became St. Petersburg was once in Finland. I also remember reading about the Finnish composer Sibelius (who wrote Finlandia, the national anthem) going out into the field with a rifle and shooting at Russian aircraft when Russia was attempting to take Finland. It sounds like North Ingermanland was an area populated by Finns that the Russians had taken. They had a nasty habit of doing this with all their neighbors, both before and after their infamous revolution.

Thanks for history lessons everyone! Will have to save some of the info and put it in my album with the stamp. I love putting history with a stamp.

rockin

valubale info

thanks