This ceased to be a real question decades ago. Virtually the original inhabitants living in the territory either fled to Finland or died in Stalin's gulags, si

This ceased to be a real question decades ago. Virtually the original inhabitants living in the territory either fled to Finland or died in Stalin's gulags, since he specifically targeted politically suspect Karelians and Ingrians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_the_Ingrian_Finns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_the_Ingrian_Finns What's left is a post-Soviet wasteland with no economy to speak of, thinly populated by migrants with no connections to Finland.