The old graveyard, shared by Hietajärvi, Kuivajärvi and Vuokinsalmi (across the border), is located on an island in Lake Vuokkijärvi, which is next to Hietajärvi. When the border was closed in the 1920s, the villages on the Finnish side had to start a new graveyard, because the old graveyard was right on the border.

The new graveyard in Kuivajärvi has been in use since the 1920s.