Voknavolok (Russian: Вокна́волок, Karelian: Vuokkiniemi) is a rural locality (selo) under the administrative jurisdiction of the Town of Kostomuksha of the Republic of Karelia, Russia.

[6]: 49 An Orthodox Christian chapel (tsasouna) had been built in Vuokkiniemi by the 1780s, at which time the parish gained independent status within the organised Church.

[6]: 37–39  Their Christianity was deeply infused with originally non-Christian traditions, including a prominent role for the sages known as tietäjät.

Indeed, Vuokkiniemi and its surrounding villages and parishes became the celebrated centre of much collecting of Finnic-language folklore, which inspired the Kalevala and much of the Finnish and Karelian nationalist movements.

[6]: 53–72  In the century following the first written record of a poetic text from Vuokkiniemi, made by Zachris Topelius the Elder on 23 January 1821, inhabitants of Vuokkiniemi contributed at least 2960 folklore texts to the collections of the Finnish Literature Society, many later published in the voluminous Suomen kansan vanhat runot.