Reboly (Russian: Ре́болы, Finnish: Repola, Karelian: Rebol´a) is a settlement in the Republic of Karelia of the Russian Federation by the Finnish border, located 91 kilometres (57 mi) southeast of Kuhmo and 96 kilometres (60 mi) northeast of Lieksa.
Its location on the Russo-Swedish border led to several cases in which the village was destroyed by Swedish detachments.
[5] In the nineteenth century it became an often-visited site by Finnish nationalist scholars, such as Elias Lönnrot, Matthias Castrén and D. E. D. Europaeus.
In the Treaty of Tartu, 1920, Finland gave up its claims on Reboly and the neighbouring Porosozero, and instead received Petsamo in the far north, which had been annexed by Finnish trooрs in 1918.
During the negotiations prior to the Winter War, the Soviet government offered Reboly and Porosozero in exchange for a smaller area on the Karelian Isthmus.