 The village had shops, warehouses, two (Finnish and Russian) schools, and Russian Orthodox church of St. Nicholas with a library and medical facility.Also a hydro-electric power station and a telephone station were established.The importance of the local railway station was eclipsed by Terijoki where Finnish customs depot was established in 1911 

In the first quarter of the 20th century Raivola was a summer home (and after 1914 the permanent home) to the Finnish-Swedish family of the young modernist poet Edith Södergran who died there in 1923.