Husula is a neighborhood in Hamina

Hamina

Hamina is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Kymenlaakso region. The town has a population of and covers an area of ofwhich is water. The population density is...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. It is located approximately 3 kilometres north from the center of Hamina. Before the town

Town

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 of Hamina and municipality

Municipality

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 of Vehkalahti

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:...

 merged at the beginning of 2003, Husula was part of Vehkalahti. Together with the neightboring Salmenkylä it combines one of the biggest population centers in Hamina (about 2000 persons living there).

Husula has played part of Finnish history. In the 18th century when Sweden

Sweden

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 and Russia

Russia

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 were at war, Swedish King Gustav III

Gustav III of Sweden

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 and his army rested in Husula before they tried to attack Hamina, which was occupied by Russians.

There are two old cemeteries in Husula, other one is the old graveyard

Graveyard

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 of Vehkalahti and the other one is old graveyeard of Hamina. The highway 26 (which leads east to Lappeenranta

Lappeenranta

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) separates those two cemeteries so that the Vehkalahti cemetery is on the northern side of the highway

Highway

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and the Hamina cemetery is on the south.

sources:
Sjöström (2011), "Y-DNA and records of medieval land inheritance in Rolandh and Tepponen lineages of Vehkalahti, Finland", Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 3 issue 6 (2011 July) pages 527..563